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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 Wins Multiple Top Honors at the 23rd Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards
Matcha Design, an award‑winning creative agency known for its strategic storytelling and design excellence, has once again been recognized on the national stage—earning ten awards at the 23rd Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA). The wins span websites,...
The Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Content Calendar That Actually Works
A well-structured content calendar is more than a publishing schedule; it’s a tool that brings focus and scalability to your organic marketing strategy. Building a complete system for content can seem daunting, but it will pay dividends (and save you a ton of time) in...
The Art & Science of Dashboard UX Design
Applying Cognitive Principles for Clarity and Impact 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...
AI and Self-Worth in the Modern Economy
Choosing a career is a big decision. It determines how you will spend tens of thousands of hours throughout your life and sets the trajectory for the people you will meet, the places you will go, and the impact you will have on the world. [smartvideo...
5 Proven Tips to Redesign Your Website for Maximum Impact
No website stays relevant forever. Businesses change. Audiences shift. Design trends evolve. Even the most well-loved site eventually reaches a point where it starts holding the brand back instead of pushing it forward. If your website is overdue for a redesign, the...
Strategies for Maximizing Design Reach
Design is a powerful tool in your marketing toolkit, but if people don’t see your designs in the first place, you’re missing out on their full power. Here are some strategies you can use to help get your designs the spotlight they deserve by increasing your reach....
The Anatomy of a Timeless Logo: Lessons from Iconic Brands
Timeless graphic design is a great goal to strive for, but with many designs, it’s less of a priority. No matter how timeless your Instagram story’s design is, it will be here today and gone tomorrow. With logo design, on the other hand, a timeless design can make the...
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...
The Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Content Calendar That Actually Works
A well-structured content calendar is more than a publishing schedule; it’s a tool that brings focus and scalability to your organic marketing strategy. Building a complete system for content can seem daunting, but it will pay dividends (and save you a ton of time) in...
The Art & Science of Dashboard UX Design
Applying Cognitive Principles for Clarity and Impact 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...
AI and Self-Worth in the Modern Economy
Choosing a career is a big decision. It determines how you will spend tens of thousands of hours throughout your life and sets the trajectory for the people you will meet, the places you will go, and the impact you will have on the world. [smartvideo...
5 Proven Tips to Redesign Your Website for Maximum Impact
No website stays relevant forever. Businesses change. Audiences shift. Design trends evolve. Even the most well-loved site eventually reaches a point where it starts holding the brand back instead of pushing it forward. If your website is overdue for a redesign, the...
Strategies for Maximizing Design Reach
Design is a powerful tool in your marketing toolkit, but if people don’t see your designs in the first place, you’re missing out on their full power. Here are some strategies you can use to help get your designs the spotlight they deserve by increasing your reach....
The Anatomy of a Timeless Logo: Lessons from Iconic Brands
Timeless graphic design is a great goal to strive for, but with many designs, it’s less of a priority. No matter how timeless your Instagram story’s design is, it will be here today and gone tomorrow. With logo design, on the other hand, a timeless design can make the...
Using Data Analytics to Improve Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Most business owners and marketers know that they should be using data analytics to make smarter decisions and win new customers. Of course, recognizing the value of a strategy is not the same as actually implementing it. When it comes to data, this can be a big...
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 work is...
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 together the...
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...