Archive for the ‘Corporate Media’ Category


The Voice is Silenced: Steve Lutomski

As I was preparing a post about my fortieth anniversary in the audio-visual business, I got a phone call informing me that Steve Lutomski had passed on. I knew Steve for nearly all of those 40 years. Ric Sorgel and I began Sorgel-Lee Multimedia (Also known as Sorgel-Lee-Riordan, SLI Multimedia, and Sorgel-Lee) February 1st, 1972. It’s easy to remember the date– it was also the day my wife of 6 months Barbara and I moved from the west side of the river to the east side. It was an easy move, and Ric borrowed his father’s GMC “Jimmy” to help [...]

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The Corporate Communications Choice: Creativity or Committee

Let me first say that I’ve been around the block. If I were a tree, I’d have 62 rings… Of hell. And in February, I’ll have been doing this– this being creating visual communications projects– for 40 years. Slide Shows, museum events, audio-visual theater in the round, multi-screen extravaganzas, video in all its permutations, wide screen meetings, business theater, web video, interactive DVD’s, you name it. (Go ahead name it– I’ll wait—- yup, did that too.) So, I’ve created a lot of media. Yes, that was my job. Create. Analyze a communications need, through research, meetings, reading, talking and listening, [...]

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