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Great Design: Dance Between Creativity & Practicality
Imagine you’re at a dance performance. Multiple elements come together - music, lighting, dance - to create something magical and memorable. The dancers are synchronized, working together seamlessly. Nothing distracts from the main focus of the piece. In the same way,...
Matcha Design Takes Home Gold Summit International Award
2023 Wins Continue for Experienced Design Agency, Matcha Design The list of the 2023 Summit Creative Awards (SIA) has been released, and Matcha Design is one of just 104 international agencies to win the coveted Gold Award. Gold Award winners span the industries of...
Why Designing a Good Website is Harder Than It Looks
You need a website!” How many times have you heard that one? How often have you said, “Okay, I’ll make it myself.” Then you tried it, and you quit because it’s never as simple as it seems. Here’s a bit about some of the most popular DIY options and why they may fall...
Reach New Audience vs. Keep Your Customer
Ah, the age-old debate: do you reach a new audience or work to keep your customer? Well, if you’ve been on the internet lately, you’ve likely heard about the recent Bud Light controversy. In this article, we’d like to untangle this mess and examine what went wrong. No...
Brand Mascots: The Lovable Sidekick for Your Business
Everyone needs a fun sidekick. This fun, loyal co-conspirator constantly assists the main character in princess stories, superhero comics - even your business, if you’ll let it! As you know, brand development is important to help your company succeed. From researching...
What Makes Good Branding?
Branding refers to the techniques a company follows to create a unique identity for the business itself. Branding can involve the company’s public image, the company website, the products/services the business offers, or the customer experience the staff provides. A...
Should you use SEO, SEM, or both?
There are several techniques that people swear by in digital marketing, but two are constantly battling each other for the top spot in marketers’ minds - SEM and SEO. So which one should you focus on: SEO (search engine optimization) or SEM (search engine marketing)?...
10 Most Creative Entrepreneurs in Japan
You knew our list of the 10 most creative entrepreneurs in Japan was coming - we are Matcha Design, after all! You may be surprised to learn the names behind some of the most notable companies you’ve heard of. Read on to learn about the best entrepreneurs born in...
Keep Learning: A Constant Goal for Creatives
With deadlines looming overhead and the next project always on the horizon, it can be a struggle for creatives to justify the time it takes to sharpen skills, develop new ones, or stay on top of the industry. However, whether your knowledge base is design or another...
The Truth on Measuring Business Services Success
It’s relatively easy for a business that sells products to measure success. All it really takes is a simple, “How many people are buying our product?” but with business services, it’s more challenging. There are several touchpoints along the way, all of which are...
What’s Your Interstellar Leadership Style?
More interstellar content, you say? We thought you’d never ask! In this article, we’ll talk about how to tell which leader from the interstellar war saga you are most like. Let’s dive in! The Dark Lord If you’re a dark lord, your team trembles whenever you enter a...
Crafting Catchy Content: Make it Memorable
Developing catchy content is a challenge for marketers and business owners. How can you take something ordinary (words, visuals, etc.) and put them together to create fantastic brand messaging? Today, we’ll compare two shows from an entertainment giant, and explain...
Great Design: Dance Between Creativity & Practicality
Imagine you’re at a dance performance. Multiple elements come together - music, lighting, dance - to create something magical and memorable. The dancers are synchronized, working together seamlessly. Nothing distracts from the main focus of the piece. In the same way,...
Why Designing a Good Website is Harder Than It Looks
You need a website!” How many times have you heard that one? How often have you said, “Okay, I’ll make it myself.” Then you tried it, and you quit because it’s never as simple as it seems. Here’s a bit about some of the most popular DIY options and why they may fall...
Reach New Audience vs. Keep Your Customer
Ah, the age-old debate: do you reach a new audience or work to keep your customer? Well, if you’ve been on the internet lately, you’ve likely heard about the recent Bud Light controversy. In this article, we’d like to untangle this mess and examine what went wrong. No...
Brand Mascots: The Lovable Sidekick for Your Business
Everyone needs a fun sidekick. This fun, loyal co-conspirator constantly assists the main character in princess stories, superhero comics - even your business, if you’ll let it! As you know, brand development is important to help your company succeed. From researching...
What Makes Good Branding?
Branding refers to the techniques a company follows to create a unique identity for the business itself. Branding can involve the company’s public image, the company website, the products/services the business offers, or the customer experience the staff provides. A...
Should you use SEO, SEM, or both?
There are several techniques that people swear by in digital marketing, but two are constantly battling each other for the top spot in marketers’ minds - SEM and SEO. So which one should you focus on: SEO (search engine optimization) or SEM (search engine marketing)?...
10 Most Creative Entrepreneurs in Japan
You knew our list of the 10 most creative entrepreneurs in Japan was coming - we are Matcha Design, after all! You may be surprised to learn the names behind some of the most notable companies you’ve heard of. Read on to learn about the best entrepreneurs born in...
Keep Learning: A Constant Goal for Creatives
With deadlines looming overhead and the next project always on the horizon, it can be a struggle for creatives to justify the time it takes to sharpen skills, develop new ones, or stay on top of the industry. However, whether your knowledge base is design or another...
The Truth on Measuring Business Services Success
It’s relatively easy for a business that sells products to measure success. All it really takes is a simple, “How many people are buying our product?” but with business services, it’s more challenging. There are several touchpoints along the way, all of which are...
What’s Your Interstellar Leadership Style?
More interstellar content, you say? We thought you’d never ask! In this article, we’ll talk about how to tell which leader from the interstellar war saga you are most like. Let’s dive in! The Dark Lord If you’re a dark lord, your team trembles whenever you enter a...
Crafting Catchy Content: Make it Memorable
Developing catchy content is a challenge for marketers and business owners. How can you take something ordinary (words, visuals, etc.) and put them together to create fantastic brand messaging? Today, we’ll compare two shows from an entertainment giant, and explain...
How to Find the Best Content Marketing Ideas for Your Business
As a business owner, finding content marketing ideas can start to feel like being a hamster on a wheel - there are only so many topic ideas you can come up with before you run out of steam. Thankfully, there are as many ways to become inspired as there are hamsters -...
Stay Home, Stay Safe.
Dear clients, We are in this together and we are here for you. COVID-19 outbreak is an unforeseen pandemic event that strikes domestically and globally. Many industries are being affected and many are struggling. Matcha Design has been working and communicating with...
Why Intent Matters When Choosing a Website Design Firm
“Is Your Website an All-Star…” featured article from Vantiv.com (now fisglobal.com) shares a deep-dive on common guidelines and execution for Value Added Resellers when updating or re-thinking the utility of their website. Akin to shedding extra weight in the fitness...
Branding Identity Design: Defending Dignity
Defending Dignity is a Tulsa-based Non-Profit on a mission to support women who are victims of human trafficking. By reaching out to those affected by exploitation they aim to facilitate healing and restoration. “When the opportunity arises to help an organization...
Matcha Design Presents SHBC’s New Look for a New Century
For their 100th year celebration, Southern Hills Baptist Church in Tulsa, OK turned to Matcha Design to give them a bold new look. Their redesigned branding and newly developed website will help carry them onward into the future. "We pulled out all the stops to give...
It’s Our 13th Anniversary
Thank You For Helping Matcha Design Celebrate 13 Years in Business It would be impossible for us to be celebrating our 13th anniversary without our incredible clients today. As a dedicated digital marketing entity, we need businesses, organizations, and entrepreneurs...
Hoover Recruiting Gets a Knockout Site from Matcha Design
Technical recruiting firm Hoover Recruiting has taken a big step forward in their business with a powerful new website created by Matcha Design. This technically advanced site boasts parallax scrolling features and a fully responsive design. “We took a rough idea for...
Matcha Design Pulls Out All Stops on Attorney Site Reboot
Matcha Design has converted Tulsa attorney Dwight L. Smith’s previously existing website into a vibrant and attractive marketing tool, packing an entire site’s worth of content and functionality into a single page. “Their old site was template-driven, and it...
Chris Lo Invited to Judge 21st Annual Communicator Awards
Chris Lo, President and Creative Director of Matcha Design, has been invited to serve on the judging panel of the 21st Annual Communicator Awards. "It's a privilege to participate in this year's judging panel for the Communicator Awards," said Chris. "I appreciate the...
Matcha Design Puts ECO Dentworks in the Limelight
ECO Dentworks, Calgary, Alberta’s most popular paintless dent repair shop, has launched their new website to rave reviews. Of course, their site was proudly designed and built by Matcha Design. “We’ve been the go-to company for ECO Dentworks for a number of years...
Matcha Design Dominates RSI Envelopes Website Design
Facing poor design, incomplete work, and broken promises, RSI Envelopes needed someone to step up and deliver a powerful, feature-laden website designed to impress. Who else could they turn to but Matcha Design. "We knew the client had just had a bad experience with...
Matcha Design Knocks One Out of the Park for Legal Docs Depository
Legal Docs Depository had a brand new business idea for storage of important documents: secure, proof from fire, theft, and tornadoes, accessible even on weekends and holidays, free lawyer review, plus an online document viewing service which is unique in the field....
Chris Lo invited to Judge The 2014 Davey Awards, International Award Program
Chris Lo, President and Creative Director of Matcha Design, has been invited to serve on the judging panel of the 2014 Davey Awards in the areas of film and video. "It's my honor to participate again this year's judging panel for the Davey Awards," said Chris. "One of...
Matcha Design Takes Home Gold Summit International Award
2023 Wins Continue for Experienced Design Agency, Matcha Design The list of the 2023 Summit Creative Awards (SIA) has been released, and Matcha Design is one of just 104 international agencies to win the coveted Gold Award. Gold Award winners span the industries of...
Matcha Design Wins Seven Gold and Silver Communicator Awards for their 29th Season
Matcha Design Takes Home Three Gold Awards and Four Silver Awards in 2023 Continuing their legacy of providing award-winning service, Matcha Design has once again earned high honors at the 29th Annual Communicator Awards. These award-winning projects are listed below....
Matcha Design Dubbed “Agency of the Year” by AdWorld Masters for 2022
This year, Matcha Design topped the list of worldwide agencies, beating out 37 other gold winners in the US alone. AdWorld Masters has a list of 12,322 agencies in their database, but less than 10% of them (1,132) received the title of “Agency of the Year” for 2022....
Matcha Design Takes Gold at 20th Annual SIAA
Advertisers in the service industry covet Service Industry Advertising (SIA) Awards. In 2023, Matcha Design took home ten SIAA awards. Though the SIAA received around 1,200 entries this year, only 258 were selected with the prestigious honor of winning. Matcha Design...
Matcha Design Named 2022 Award-Winning Company by TechBehemoths
Tulsa-based Matcha Design stands out as one of the top 105 IT companies in the US, chosen by the advanced, user-friendly platform, TechBehemoths. TechBehemoths recently released its list of 2022 award-winning companies worldwide. The 1,526 total winners were from a...
Matcha Design Adds Four More Davey Awards to its Collection in 2022
Davey Awards recognize small shop owners with undeniable creativity. This year, creative full-service agency Matcha Design was honored with four silver awards. The honor of a Davey Award is given to small businesses with a big impact throughout the nation. Named after...
Matcha Design Crowned the Best of Oklahoma Award by UpCity
UpCity uses proprietary algorithms to measure company credibility and trustworthiness. They recently honored Matcha Design, a full-service creative agency, with the Best of Oklahoma Award. Over 50,000 provider profiles are listed on UpCity, highlighting nearly 40 data...
Matcha Design Named One of Tulsa’s Top Web Developers in 2022
Seattle-based Expertise specializes in helping people find experts in their community. They recently named Matcha Design, a full-service creative and graphic design agency, one of the best web developers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Expertise carefully reviewed 62 web design...
Matcha Design 2022 Number One Oklahoma B2B Company in Clutch 2022 Top Performer’s List
Matcha Design continues to grow and receive recognition in a competitive B2B market. A worldwide leader in the B2B industry, Clutch is based in Washington DC and is the leading ratings and review platform for IT, marketing and business service providers. Clutch serves...
Matcha Design Projects Rewarded with Five 2022 Communicator Awards
Matcha Design’s Trophy Case Adds More Silver and Gold in 2022 The 28th Annual Communicator Awards recognized several Matcha Design projects with high distinctions out of the 5,000 entries they received from companies, studios, agencies, and shops ranging in size and...
Matcha Design Brings Home 9 Awards At 19th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards
Tulsa, OK – Matcha Design, a Tulsa marketing and advertising company that offers wraparound advertising services, brought home 9 Service Industry Advertising Awards. These awards honor companies that offer innovative services in the realm of advertising for service...
Matcha Design Tops The 2021 Ad World Masters Agency List
AI algorithm chooses Matcha Design as the best advertising agency in the United States. For the third year in a row, Matcha Design – a Tulsa, Oklahoma Graphic Design and Advertising Agency – was selected for a Gold 2021 Agency of the Year Award. For the third year in...