Role: Head of Design
Years: 2012
Team
Via: Rocksauce Studios

DaySince

Built in the days before Sketch or Figma or using robots or threejs on your website, we built DaySince. Skeuomorphic to the max, painstakingly painted pixel-by-pixel & layer-by-layer in Adobe Photoshop. Revel in the glory of the twenty-teens & the craft we wrought.

The app

You name a calendar, choose the day to count from and pick how the number looks. The count sits on a big banner you can share with friends.

Three iPhone screens of DaySince: the launch screen, the new calendar form and the counter style picker. — Fig. 1: The launch screen, a new calendar and the counter styles.

Three iPhone screens of DaySince showing a red banner counting 12,839 days, one counting 36 days and a photo screen with a dog in a costume. — Fig. 2: The count on its banner, and a photo behind it.

Calendars and styles

A calendar view lets you mark days off one at a time. The counter came in several looks, from a red banner to nixie tubes.

Three iPhone screens of DaySince: a March calendar with red crosses on past days, the edit calendar form and the share screen with a keyboard. — Fig. 3: Marking days off, editing a calendar and sharing the count.

Three counter style artworks for DaySince: gold numbers on charcoal, glowing nixie tubes on wood and an astronaut with a day count. — Fig. 4: Other looks for the counter.

The craft

Painted DaySince buttons on a deep blue ground, each shown beside its pressed state: a green check, a red cross, a calendar icon, a camera, a round Start button and a green Create bar. — Fig. 5: The buttons, each beside its pressed state.

A month of DaySince calendar day cells on a paper card, with glossy red crosses over the days crossed off and plain numbers on the rest. — Fig. 6: The calendar days, with the red cross for each day crossed off.

Every screen

Ten DaySince iPhone screens in a grid: launch, create, date picker, counter styles, nixie tubes, photo picker, photo counter, the counter, the calendar list and a month calendar. — Fig. 7: Every original screen, from launch to the calendar.

Nine DaySince iPhone screens in a grid: edit calendar, delete and reset warnings, share, the share error, share success, about, credits and social networks. — Fig. 8: Every original screen, from editing to settings.

Up close

Fig. 9: Up close, the launch screen. Every screen here is the original Retina art, 640 × 960 at 326 ppi, shown pixel for pixel.

The DaySince counter screen beside a close-up of its red stitched banner with the day count in embossed numerals. — Fig. 10: Up close, the counter banner.

The DaySince Choose Style screen beside a close-up of the nixie tube, flip card and odometer counters. — Fig. 11: Up close, the counter styles.

The DaySince month calendar beside a close-up of its red crossed-off days. — Fig. 12: Up close, the calendar.

The DaySince share screen beside a close-up of its ruled notepad paper and paperclip. — Fig. 13: Up close, the share screen.

Fig. 14: Up close, the about screen.

The DaySince credits screen beside a close-up of its letterpress title and paper name cards. — Fig. 15: Up close, the credits.

The DaySince calendar list beside a close-up of its leather and paper rows. — Fig. 16: Up close, the calendar list.

Copyright 2026 Q Manning • Built in Austin, TX