Rocketday is a collaborative team of consultants, artists, coders and designers, each bringing complementary expertise to your projects.
Emrys Damon Miller | director
Emrys oversees all projects, providing strategy, creative direction and technical direction. He brings a background in communications design, fine art, and computer science. Emrys is a Professional Member of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, and participates in the global graphic design community, regularly attending design congresses such as ICOGRADA Nagoya (2003), AIGA Vancouver (2003), ICOGRADA Havana (2007), Design Thinkers Toronto (2009) and The 99 Percent NYC (2009, 2010). He’s received awards in creative direction, graphic design, photography and illustration, including the Judges’ Rock Award at GDC VI Creative Awards 2000. His weekly play and notes are documented in his personal blog.
emrys@rocketday.com | (Victoria) cell 250-744-7329
Jen LeMercier | studio manager
Jen manages the studio, overseeing administration and supporting most projects. Her interests and schooling also include ecological sustainability, education and languages.
jen@rocketday.com | (Victoria) studio 250-386-7329
Jocelyn Mandryk | graphic designer, photographer
Jocelyn is a creative director, graphic designer and photographer, currently making her home in Buenos Aires (when not in Victoria, New York City, Venice, or Paris). Jocelyn runs her own company Jocelyn Mandryk Art Direction & Design and posts photography and design work on her blog.
jocelyn@rocketday.com | (Buenos Aires) Skype "Jocelyn Mandryk"
Matthew Robert Miller | associate: consultant, designer, writer
Matthew provides a wide range of communications expertise, from writing to software development. Holding a MAAC in Communications, Matthew is the Principal of Quirke Infographica, previously the Manager of Operations at Number 41 Media and Vice President of the Victoria School of Writing.
Roseanne Harvey | associate: writer, editor, social media manager
Roseanne is a writer, editor and social media manager. For 3 years, she was the Editor of the award winning Ascent magazine. Her fiction and creative non-fiction has been published in Geist, SubTerrain and GoodGirl magazine. She is currently the Social Media Manager of the Quebec English Literacy Alliance, and blogger of it’s all yoga, baby.
Sam Tallo | associate: art director, graphic designer, motion graphics designer
Sam Tallo is an art and creative director, print and motion graphics designer and writer. Back when Photoshop was just a glint in Adobe’s eye, Sam was wrapping-up as guitarist with ska granddaddies, King Apparatus, and getting his teeth into graphic design. He’s since created award-winning book jackets, compelling advertising (print, radio, television and online), broadcast motion graphics, and has helped define and build enduring mom and pop brands. Sam is the Principal at Bike Creative and continues to write and record music in his humble basement studio.
Marianne Unger | associate: art director, graphic designer
Marianne Unger is an art director and graphic designer. Marianne is the Principal of MUD Studio, and like Rocketday, focuses on clients within the arts, community development and environment — with a specific focus on clients within her local community.
Joe Hedges | associate: graphic designer, website designer
Joe Hedges is a strategic planner, graphic designer and website designer. He is the Principal of Hedges Creative in Herefordshire, United Kingdom. He is also the designer of Further Afield, an international accommodations listing website for gay travellers. Victoria (Canada) locals will recognized his attractive design work for Silk Road tea company in Victoria and the World Student Environmental Summit (held in Victoria 2009).
Maleea Acker | associate: writer, editor
Maleea works in a variety of cultural, political and environmental sectors, writing, editing and designing for environmental and arts organizations, and teaching poetry. Maleea is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and has received awards and fellowships for her writing from granting agencies and arts residencies in Canada, the USA, Mexico and Spain. She has an MFA from the University of Victoria. Her first book of poetry, “The Reflecting Pool,” was published by Pedlar Press (Toronto) in 2009.
George Allen | associate: brand strategist, designer
Rocketday collaborator George Allen brings expertise in brand consulting and graphic design. George holds both an MA and MBA, and is the Principal of Design | Strategy | Research | Inc.
Josh Nychuk | associate: graphic designer
Josh is the Principal of Nychuk Design, with a focus on logo development and environmental graphics. He enjoys cooking as much as graphic design, but recommends not doing them both at the same time.
Marija Dumancic | associate: writer, editor, broadcaster
Marija is a writer, editor and radio broadcaster. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in the Prairies and the Arctic, various aid organizations in Afghanistan and India, and most recently as a special projects editor for Canadian Geographic at the magazine’s Ottawa office. Her writing has been published in The Globe & Mail, The Calgary Herald, up! magazine and the Random House anthology on Afghanistan titled Outside the Wire.
Dushan Milic | associate: illustrator, art director, graphic designer
Dushan is an illustrator, art director and graphic designer. His illustration has won several awards and can be found in The New York Times, The Globe & Mail, LA Weekly and Exclaim!, as well as dozens of magazines. Beyond illustration, he also a seasoned art director and graphic designer. Dushan is the Principal at Dushan Milic Illustration and Design, and he will be teaching a class in 2011 at OCAD (Toronto) on “Illustration Activism.”