Leading Teams to
Align, Brand, & Create.
Twelve years leading design, motion, and production at WGN-TV, NewsNation, and Epsilon, directing teams the last six years. In 2026 I founded RecLet, a writing and audio studio for iOS, Android, and web, and built it by directing AI coding agents the way I direct a design team.
Selected work
Six bodies of work, one method.
Every creative decision is a story decision. These are the places I have made that pay off: a product I built myself, a national news launch, a global agency team, six years of daily television, and a weekly comedy show.
RecLet
Founded a company and built a cross-platform writing and audio studio: brand, product, every word of copy, and ~170K lines of software built by directing AI agents.
NewsNation
The creative infrastructure that took a three-hour newscast toward 24-hour national news: the in-house rebrand from WGN America, eight show brands, the 2020 debate and election packages, and a team of ten.
Epsilon
Seven producers, each carrying 20 to 40 client brands, inside a thirty-person digital production department: the workflow, onboarding, and training behind digital programs for OLIPOP, the NFL, McDonald's, Walgreens, Marriott, and Anheuser-Busch.
WGN-TV
Graphics for Chicago's #1 morning newscast, packages for Night Cap and Chicago Football Weekly, the 2018 WGN Sports animation, and the automation behind 900+ animations a quarter.
Man of the People
Lead designer for WGN's weekly comedy show, 2018–2019: about 80 graphics a week, 4,000+ in all, and the show's animation package.
Studio
Key art and 3D under Mautonceman Studios: book covers, one-sheets, a spec campaign, and the Bottle o' series built in Blender.
How I work
Story theory, then the system that ships it.
Every creative decision is a story decision: what a brand promises, which line of copy earns the click, which segment opens the show, even the palette, because a product built to calm someone cannot be red. Read the story right and the brand, the marketing, and the design stop arguing with each other. It is why RecLet is called RecLet, from Your Records & Letters. Your Stories.
Then I build the thing the team ships through: templates, standards, onboarding, review gates, and the documentation that makes them stick. It worked for a design group of ten at a news network, for producers across the US, UK, and India, and in 2026 for a team of AI coding agents.
More about meWhat people say
Adam became such a valued part of our design team. Adaptable, technically skilled, and an incredible problem solver. I couldn't imagine managing a national news design team during a pandemic without Adam.NaShantá Fletcher, NewsNation / WGN-TV
Adam's attention to detail, speed under pressure, and technical mastery made him one of my go-to designers. He consistently delivered thousands of assets with accuracy and a positive attitude.Bernard Ong, former Art Director, WGN-TV
Hiring for brand, creative operations, or product marketing?
I'm open to director-level roles, remote anywhere in the US or hybrid in or near Los Angeles. The resume is one click; a conversation is one email.