Rocketday has supported the works of writer / photographer / musician / traveller / friend Daniel Baylis for a dozen years.

It started in 2013, with Daniel’s book The Traveller. Michel Vrana designed the cover, and Rocketday designed and typeset the 400-page interior, hand-coded the eBook, and built a simple website.

Rocketday hand-coded the eBook for The Traveller, 2014

sample of Rocketday’s typesetting for the 400-page interior of The Traveller, 2014

Rocketday hand-coded a simple website for The Traveller, 2014

The next project that Rocketday supported was Daniel’s website, designing and building a custom, hand-coded WordPress theme. Daniel’s landing page featured a white spruce, a tree that connects to Daniel’s upbringing in the middle of British Columbia.

website homepage, 2016

illustrating Daniel’s original website icon, a white spruce, 2016

photography section of the custom-built WordPress theme, 2019

The next project that Rocketday supported was A Submission to Love. The book featured Daniel’s poetry beside original collage artworks by Melanie Garcia.

book design for the poetry collection A Submission to Love, 2020

sample interior spreads of book design for the poetry collection A Submission to Love, 2020

Rocketday’s portrait of Daniel, 2013