Creative Director Video

DaniBruckman

Telling stories that make sense of a changing world.

Concept
Editorial
Narrative Shaping
Scriptwriting
Directing
End-to-End Production
Agency & Freelancer Management
Science Communication
Technical Storytelling
Series & Format Development
Documentary
Explainer
Long-Form
Social
Influencer
Product Launch
Event Coverage
Podcast

I create video that engages and compels. For the past 14+ years I've developed narratives ranging from documentaries for Discovery to branded explainers across Vox and The Verge. My work has helped companies like AWS and Waymo showcase world-changing innovations in science and technology that promise to shape and shift the very foundations of how we live.

I approach every story with curiosity, asking questions from all angles until complexity distills into clarity and the right perspective comes into view.

I make complex ideas simple by asking good questions.

Selected Work

L'Oréal researcher profile Editorial Director

L'Oréal × Vox

Meet the molecular biologist shining light on the mysteries of bacterial "slime"

Character-driven docu-series bringing researchers' stories to life with humanity and depth — profiling the scientists behind the science, not just the science itself.

Researcher Profile
Watch on Vox →
Lysol animated explainer Creative Director

Lysol × Vox

You shouldn't always follow your nose

Animated explainer putting a fresh lens on product science to make invisible chemistry visible for a consumer audience. Held up as the most successful partnership across post-production and leveraged in sales materials that brought in new business.

Product Storytelling
Watch on Vox →
Airbus sustainable aviation Creative Director

Airbus × Vox × The Verge × CNN × Discovery

What needs to happen to fuel sustainable aviation?

Led the first consumer narrative in Airbus's 55-year history — unifying AI, sustainability, space, and defense into one visual and editorial framework across 4 explainers, podcasts, and social for a non-technical audience.

Emerging Tech Storytelling
Watch on Vox →
AWS Waves of Innovation Creative Director

AWS × The Verge

An innovation tsunami is swelling. How can businesses ride the wave?

Metaphor-driven explainer that drove 90% brand lift among technical decision-makers, positioning AWS as a leader in workplace innovation.

Technical Storytelling
Watch on The Verge →
UC Berkeley Blum docuseries Creative Producer

UC Berkeley Blum × Seeker × Discovery

This cell phone hack could save lives

Mission-driven field docuseries produced pro bono with host Laura Ling, earning the trust of researchers who had never worked with a video producer before to give their work the platform it deserved.

Frontier Research
AI for Change NowThis Microsoft Producer / Director

NowThis × Microsoft

Thanks to AI, the entire physical world will soon talk and interact with us

Directed a docu-series profiling the founders using AI to reshape the physical world — in 2018, before people were really talking about it.

AI Storytelling

Side Quests

My Cloud Pal

An (In)appropriation piece · 2013

An (In)appropriation piece · 2013

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Concept Art · Internet Culture

My Cloud Pal

In 2013 I accidentally gained a window into a stranger's life.

A glitch in the cloud started syncing photos from a man with an epic Salvador Dalí mustache to my phone. Instead of fixing the problem, I followed my curiosity. Why was this happening? Why was this man taking so many photos of himself? Why couldn't I look away?

I turned the experience into a conceptual art project — a meditation on digital identity, voyeurism, and life online. Within days of releasing it into the internet void, it was picked up by more than 80 outlets across 15 countries.

That moment shaped how I approach storytelling: pay attention, ask questions, get creative (it's okay to get a little weird), and don't be afraid to put the work out into the world.

80+ outlets · 15 countries · No press release

AI-generated game cards

AI + Canva

Printed and played game

Printed & Played

AI + Game Design

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AI + Game Design

Guess Who?

After taking an AI for Design class, I wanted to see what these tools could actually do if I used them to make something real.

So I turned photos of my family and pets into cartoon characters with AI and built them into a playable Guess Who?* game for my sister's birthday. The characters were generated with AI, the cards were designed in Canva, and the result was a physical game we could actually play together IRL.

Later, Vox Media asked me to present the project company-wide as part of a session I led on AI in creative development, using the game to get skeptical colleagues excited about AI through play.

*Safe for work. Not recommended for Thanksgiving.

Press & Awards

Awards

Telly Awards

Featured Judge, Video

2024–present

Shorty Award — Winner

Best Business — NGO, Social Good

Discovery × Seeker × ONE

Webby Award — Honoree

Best Branded Content

Pearson × NowThis

Digiday Media Awards — Finalist

Content Studio of the Year

Vox Creative

Press

Work

HuffPost — Energy Poverty & The Electrify Africa Act Business Insider — Airbnb is letting people book trips with Instagram-famous pets Variety — Enterprise Drives to Science Channel, Seeker to Talk Technology

My Cloud Pal

BuzzFeed — This Girl Has Been Re-Creating the Amazing Selfies... Mashable — Woman recreates selfies posted by new owner of her iPhone Daily Mail — Woman parodies moustachioed selfies taken by eccentric thief
Published In
VoxThe VergeNew York MagazineVultureDiscoverySeekerThe DodoNowThisEaterThe CutPopSugarCNNScience ChannelAnimal Planet
Created For
AWSLysolAirbusL'OréalMicrosoftWaymoState FarmMetaAirbnbNetflixAT&TAdobeXPRIZEModernaSamsungPepsiStarbucksMars PetcareGeicoAmazonHuluDisneyNat GeoMilkPEPMayo ClinicMcDonald'sLillyHPEUSAF

Let'smakesomething.

Dani Bruckman

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