Atomic Design Inc.  

 

A beer, a brainstorm and a boost for downtown Lititz.
About nine months ago, local executive Soren West was having a beer at the Bulls Head pub in the General Sutter Inn with Paul Pendyck, a partner in the inn.
The conversation turned to Pendyck's vision for the pub and inn, two valuable p...

Sometimes, success can draw you away from the things you love.
Just ask Tom McPhillips, founder of Atomic Design in Lititz, one of the country's leading scenic production shops.
"Atomic was founded as a design company," McPhillips says. "As time went on, we started building stuff....

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Little Soren West fidgeted, and his attention wandered.
And, when his second-grade teacher made him stand before classmates and read aloud, he had more reason to feel school was not the place for him.
Stumbling as he read, West endured belittling from the teacher and teasing from kids. The one thi...