Merry Christmas from all of us here at Atomhawk Design!

Happy birthday to us! Atomhawk reaches the grand old age of 3 this month with lots to celebrate and lots to look forward to. It's a much bigger party this year as we welcome our 18th member of staff in the form of Concept Artist, Raphael Lübke. Our works outing included an extremely intense Laser Tag battle in the forests of Durham, an educational visit to Durham Cathedral as well as the graves of fallen Roman Gladiators!

Welcome to our new home at the Northern Design Centre in glorious Gateshead! Our move from the Gateshead International Business Centre was necessary due to the increasing size of the company, so once more we moved down the road to a bigger office.

Atomhawk are very excited to be nominated in the Best Visual Outsourcer category at this year's Develop Awards. We will be keeping all fingers and toes crossed until the winners are announced in July!

Atomhawk CEO Cumron Ashtiani will be talking about creating a new visual IP at this year's Develop conference.

Managing Director, Cumron Ashtiani is featured in the Inside Outsourcing article in the March issue of Develop Magazine. You can see what he has to say about the role and future of outsourcing in the games industry on page 35 of issue 125.

Our very own Charlie Bowater has once more shared her skills and provided another tutorial to our friends at ImagineFX!

It's that time of year again! Francesco Lorenzetti is one of our newest additions to our team and his name was picked out of the hat to paint the latest Atomhawk Design Christmas card on behalf of the Atomhawk Design Charity Initiative.

Recently Atomhawk expanded its ranks with four new recruits!

Atomhawk Director Cumron Ashtiani has written a new article for the August 2011 issue of Develop assessing the strengths and weaknesses of stylised graphics.