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Bridging Generations: How Emoji Evolution Reflects Brand Shifts
Emojis have come a long way since we were typing a simple : ) on AOL Instant Messenger. Now, in addition to those punctuation-based classics, we have hundreds of colorful graphics to choose from, including various expressions, foods, flags, and so much more. Their...
Top 5 Essentials for a Successful Design Presentation
You’ve put in the hours, interviewed the stakeholders, and made change after change to get your design just right. Now, it’s time to present your design to your boss or client, which is an entirely different ball game. Here are the top 5 essentials you need to make...
How to Turn Design Skills into Second Nature
There’s nothing that compares to the rush of mastering a new design skill. When you’ve managed to go from the design equivalent of training wheels to speeding down the street, it feels like flying! However, then you face the challenge of taking that design skill from...
10 Great Tips for Designing a Faith-based Website
Designing websites for churches requires a unique blend of creativity, strategic thinking, and respect for deeply rooted traditions. Faith-based organizations often operate with limited resources and varied audiences, which makes these challenges even more pressing....
How Cinematic Color Principles can Improve UX and Conversions
A professional work of cinema is the result of countless hours of creative work from many professionals, far beyond just the actors and directors. One such role is that of a film colorist. After filming wraps up, the colorist adjusts the look of each frame to evoke a...
UX Design with Memory in Mind
Personalized experiences have become the norm in most online spaces. Want to make an online purchase? Amazon will remember your buying and search histories and tailor the experience to your interests. Want to listen to music? Spotify remembers your listening history,...
Silent Signals: How Strategic Loading Animations Build Trust
Humans hate waiting. And studies have shown that we especially hate passive waiting. Designers across industries have responded to this in various ways. Naturally, the best solution is to reduce wait time as much as possible. When it comes to web design, for instance,...
How to Articulate Your Design Choices
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? Well… sort of. Sure, we all have our own style, influences, and preferences. Part of our job as designers is to help clients find and express a visual identity that aligns with their vision. [smartvideo...
SEO Mistakes That Are Killing Your Website Traffic
A well-designed site can still underperform. Even with consistent blogging and thoughtful, high-quality content, organic traffic may remain flat. When that happens, it’s rarely because the work lacks value. More often, it’s because the site is missing a few key...
10 Tips for Effective Brand Marketing
Brand marketing is an extremely important strategy, but one that often gets overlooked in favor of performance marketing. Performance marketing is more direct and has a clear, relatively immediate ROI because it is focused on conversions. Meanwhile, brand marketing is...
How to Obtain and Leverage User-Generated Content for Your Brand
Original content is a foundational pillar of any digital marketing strategy. It’s an opportunity to communicate in your own voice, highlight the features you care about most, and build a consistent brand identity. However, if you want to take your content strategy...
The Role of UX Writing in Enhancing Website Engagement
What comes to mind when you think of a beautifully crafted user experience? [smartvideo src="https://youtu.be/WLHdFRDjiWE" width="1920" height="1080" responsive=true...
Bridging Generations: How Emoji Evolution Reflects Brand Shifts
Emojis have come a long way since we were typing a simple : ) on AOL Instant Messenger. Now, in addition to those punctuation-based classics, we have hundreds of colorful graphics to choose from, including various expressions, foods, flags, and so much more. Their...
Top 5 Essentials for a Successful Design Presentation
You’ve put in the hours, interviewed the stakeholders, and made change after change to get your design just right. Now, it’s time to present your design to your boss or client, which is an entirely different ball game. Here are the top 5 essentials you need to make...
How to Turn Design Skills into Second Nature
There’s nothing that compares to the rush of mastering a new design skill. When you’ve managed to go from the design equivalent of training wheels to speeding down the street, it feels like flying! However, then you face the challenge of taking that design skill from...
10 Great Tips for Designing a Faith-based Website
Designing websites for churches requires a unique blend of creativity, strategic thinking, and respect for deeply rooted traditions. Faith-based organizations often operate with limited resources and varied audiences, which makes these challenges even more pressing....
How Cinematic Color Principles can Improve UX and Conversions
A professional work of cinema is the result of countless hours of creative work from many professionals, far beyond just the actors and directors. One such role is that of a film colorist. After filming wraps up, the colorist adjusts the look of each frame to evoke a...
UX Design with Memory in Mind
Personalized experiences have become the norm in most online spaces. Want to make an online purchase? Amazon will remember your buying and search histories and tailor the experience to your interests. Want to listen to music? Spotify remembers your listening history,...
Silent Signals: How Strategic Loading Animations Build Trust
Humans hate waiting. And studies have shown that we especially hate passive waiting. Designers across industries have responded to this in various ways. Naturally, the best solution is to reduce wait time as much as possible. When it comes to web design, for instance,...
How to Articulate Your Design Choices
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? Well… sort of. Sure, we all have our own style, influences, and preferences. Part of our job as designers is to help clients find and express a visual identity that aligns with their vision. [smartvideo...
SEO Mistakes That Are Killing Your Website Traffic
A well-designed site can still underperform. Even with consistent blogging and thoughtful, high-quality content, organic traffic may remain flat. When that happens, it’s rarely because the work lacks value. More often, it’s because the site is missing a few key...
10 Tips for Effective Brand Marketing
Brand marketing is an extremely important strategy, but one that often gets overlooked in favor of performance marketing. Performance marketing is more direct and has a clear, relatively immediate ROI because it is focused on conversions. Meanwhile, brand marketing is...
How to Obtain and Leverage User-Generated Content for Your Brand
Original content is a foundational pillar of any digital marketing strategy. It’s an opportunity to communicate in your own voice, highlight the features you care about most, and build a consistent brand identity. However, if you want to take your content strategy...
The Role of UX Writing in Enhancing Website Engagement
What comes to mind when you think of a beautifully crafted user experience? [smartvideo src="https://youtu.be/WLHdFRDjiWE" width="1920" height="1080" responsive=true...
Matcha Design Makes the Winners List at SIAA 2024
Service industry advertisers clamor each year for a chance to win the Service Industry Advertising Awards. This year, Matcha Design brought home ten more awards. This year, the 21st Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA) saw over 1,000 entries in the…
Matcha Design Is Honored With Four 19th Annual Davey Awards
Davey Awards recognize small shop owners with undeniable creativity. This year, creative full-service agency Matcha Design was honored with four silver awards. 2023 Wins Stacking Up for Experienced Tulsa Design Agency Matcha Design earned four silver awards: three 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…
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...
Letter from the President: Matcha Design Celebrates 9 Years
It's hard to believe that it has been 9 years since Matcha Design was born in Tulsa. Throughout these 9 years, we have been very blessed with great clients, projects, and most of all great team members. Our irresistible office dog, has also played a big role in our...
Watch Now: The bART Spring Concert Video
Students at The bART Center for Music performed beautifully in May at the Spring Concert. We were pleased to attend and be a part of the concert video production. Kudos to all the students, faculty and staff for your hard work and dedication.
Congrats To The Senior Students At The bART Center For Music
This week was the spring concert at The bART Center For Music showcasing young talent from across the city. We captured dramatic still shots of the students and instructors at the rehearsal to use in the upcoming bART print brochure. A video shoot of the concert...
Luna Electrical and Illumination Lights Up A New Website Design
Luna Electrical & Illumination launched their new website this spring with design and development help from Matcha Design. The site design was kept clean and used vibrant blues, greens and silvers to mirror the beautiful moon lighting their residential...
Sullivent Law Firm Rebrands With A New Sleek Look
Sullivent Law Firm in Tulsa is doing an overhaul on their identity this year, and Matcha Design is excited to help them reposition their brand with a new look and feel that is unlike any local law firm around. "We created a sleek, new brand that brought...
Matcha Design Helps Launch Brand Identity For The bART Center For Music
Matcha Design is proud to come alongside the prestigious Barthelmes Conservatory in Tulsa to rebrand its identity with a new name and look. The new name, The bART Center For Music (The bART), encompasses not only the organization's history of musical excellence but...
Matcha Design Office Is Moving
Our Tulsa office has been our home since 2004, but we are excited to be moving our office in mid-April! The new location will provide staff with a complete floor dedicated to creative planning and project execution. Matcha Design will still be available throughout...
MidFirst Banking App Animation Featured This Week At OKC Thunder Game
Matcha Design's custom animation work was featured at this week's OKC Thunder NBA game against the Denver Nuggets, promoting MidFirst's mobile banking app. The six separate LED digital signage animations included three, outdoor boards for Chesapeake Energy Arena,...
Matcha Design Produces Acceptance.org’s Video For SXSW
Matcha Design is excited to announce their first video animation for Acceptance.org, promoting its grassroots movement for acceptance and equality. The video will premiere at this weekend's South By Southwest (SXSW) festival, during the R2R Live streaming event hosted...
Chris Lo invited to Judge The 2013 Communicator Awards, International Award Program
Chris Lo, President and Creative Director of Matcha Design, has been invited to serve on the judging panel of the 2013 Communicator Awards in the areas of film and video. "It's my priviledge to be on the judging panel for this year's Davey Awards," said Chris. "One of...
Matcha Design On Board With New Create2Serve.org
At Matcha, we believe in reaching out to others through our community involvement. We support Kiva, an organization that combats poverty, and we offer a Nonprofit Reward to new clients. We don't do these things to make ourselves feel good, but rather, we feel helping...