Articles - graphitelab

Graphite Lab was started on January 1st 2009 by Matt Raithel. Initially, the studio was formed as Black Lantern Studios – St. Louis. Their first project was Ben 10 Alien Force: The Rise of Hex. Licensed through Cartoon Network, This title was published by Konami for the XBOX360 (XBOX LIVE) and Wii (WiiWare) in May of 2010. Around January of 2011, the team began to earn a few clients outside of their parent company and decided that they would have more luck if we branded the studio with its own name and focus and thus was born Graphite Lab. The idea behind the name was two fold. First: the GRAPHITE stood for the age old tool of creativity. We wanted to be a creative organization that never lost that playful spark of creativity that stemmed from our artistic roots. Second: the Lab stood for the environment in which research is performed and lessons learned. We also wanted to be an organization that never stopped learning new things.