Man sitting on a black and wood lounge chair in a living room, wearing glasses, a light green cap, a white t-shirt, light jeans, and red and white Nike sneakers.

OpenSourceEmpathy is a multidisciplinary design studio run by Daniel Buckley — a designer, animator, and general creative troublemaker based in the Boston area.

Daniel's creative instincts were sharpened studying Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Typography, and Animation at UMass Dartmouth, then deepened through an MFA in Dynamic Media at MassArt. That combination of craft tradition and experimental thinking tends to show up in everything he makes.

Over 20+ years, he's brought that perspective to work for organizations ranging from local institutions to global brands — WGBH Boston, MIT, Bose, Philips, and Microsoft among them. The scale changes. The curiosity doesn't.

His toolset spans graphic design, typography, animation, video editing, photography, sound design, game design, concept development, and hardware design — which is a long way of saying: if it involves making something look, move, or feel right, Daniel's probably done it.

If you've got a creative project that needs a thoughtful collaborator (and someone who actually enjoys the weird, hard problems), get in touch →