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Google Photos and Small Business
On May 28th, 2015, Google launched Google Photos - the newest member of the Google family of web apps. Although there are many other photo-sharing apps available that sprung up before and after Google Photos, Google Photos remains the most popular. Stacking Up Against...
Matcha Design Awarded Four Prestigious Davey Awards
Matcha Design, a full-service creative company known for their creative design solutions to complex branding challenges, brought home four prestigious awards from the 2021 International Davey Awards. The 17th annual Davey Awards accepted submissions from over 2,000...
5 Tips to Deliver Impactful Services to the Market
In an ever-shifting economy, companies struggle to keep their policies and offerings up to date with the current market. Decision makers understand the importance of seeking out the best practices in modern business in order to ensure competitiveness and innovation....
Social Media Networking is The Key
Having active posts and tweets on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is the core of many businesses daily social media strategy but many might not know. The impact of social media to business is something that shouldn’t be underestimated. It is important to build...
Matcha Design Takes Home Bronze Award from 2021 Summit International Awards
Matcha Design, a graphic and website design company known for their dedication to innovation in print, logo, and web page designs, celebrated yet another accredited award this week. Matcha Design announced their receipt of a Bronze Award from the Summit Creative Award...
Cultivate a Positive Brand Culture
Say you are an up-and-coming baker and would like to purchase a new stand mixer for your home kitchen. You’re likely to start your search off with brands that you know are reliable and high quality, such as KitchenAid or Cuisinart. They are recognized for the...
Good Design Do Not Just Sprout Out of Thin Air
Organized your pencils and pens lately? Sorted your clothes into a logical system in your drawers? Then you already understand the basic elements of good design: it is practical, it is systematic, and it makes life easier. In the same way, marketing materials that use...
Social Proof Marketing for Business Services
Social proof marketing is a concept that the average person would assume they know nothing about, claiming that it was yet another buzzword. Yet a large portion of the population has taken part in social proof marketing at least once in the course of their lives - and...
How to Stop Selling and Start Helping
Zig Ziglar famously quoted, “Stop Selling. Start Helping.” While this may seem like a counterintuitive practice for any sales-based company, he does make a pretty good point. When acting as a salesperson, you have a couple main objectives in mind, which can include...
How to Choose a Designer For Your Business
Despite economic uncertainty and unforeseen global commerce delays, the entrepreneurial world is booming. Established businesses, large and small, are rebranding; they're updating their logos, rewriting mission statements, and turning to marketing professionals as a...
Get More Out of Your Small Business Branding with Custom Stickers
For decades loyal customers and fans have loved to share and present the stickers of their favorite brands. From computer companies, niche manufacturers, including free stickers in the box with every product has people... well, sticking them, anywhere they can. Early...
If You Want Killer SEO You Can’t Stop At Keywords
As we leave the globe gripping pandemic, brands large and small are looking to refresh how they approach digital marketing. This means investing in advanced content marketing for small to medium-sized businesses, paid advertising on multiple platforms, and redesigning...
Good Design Do Not Just Sprout Out of Thin Air
Organized your pencils and pens lately? Sorted your clothes into a logical system in your drawers? Then you already understand the basic elements of good design: it is practical, it is systematic, and it makes life easier. In the same way, marketing materials that use...
Social Proof Marketing for Business Services
Social proof marketing is a concept that the average person would assume they know nothing about, claiming that it was yet another buzzword. Yet a large portion of the population has taken part in social proof marketing at least once in the course of their lives - and...
How to Stop Selling and Start Helping
Zig Ziglar famously quoted, “Stop Selling. Start Helping.” While this may seem like a counterintuitive practice for any sales-based company, he does make a pretty good point. When acting as a salesperson, you have a couple main objectives in mind, which can include...
How to Choose a Designer For Your Business
Despite economic uncertainty and unforeseen global commerce delays, the entrepreneurial world is booming. Established businesses, large and small, are rebranding; they're updating their logos, rewriting mission statements, and turning to marketing professionals as a...
Get More Out of Your Small Business Branding with Custom Stickers
For decades loyal customers and fans have loved to share and present the stickers of their favorite brands. From computer companies, niche manufacturers, including free stickers in the box with every product has people... well, sticking them, anywhere they can. Early...
If You Want Killer SEO You Can’t Stop At Keywords
As we leave the globe gripping pandemic, brands large and small are looking to refresh how they approach digital marketing. This means investing in advanced content marketing for small to medium-sized businesses, paid advertising on multiple platforms, and redesigning...
How to Grow Your Brand Online in the 2020s
The new era is here. While tried and true business practices still work well (you're the expert on what you do), you may need to rethink how you approach branding your organization for the coming decade. How you treat your customers, how you provide them value, and...
5 Ways Your Service Business Will Stand Out!
In the business services industry, your company offers something that's likely essential, but you may not be the only option. The local and regional competition is tough. Hard work and expertise are how you've forged the long-standing customer relationships you...
5 Small Business Management Tips That’ll Save You Time and Money
Running your business is a daily challenge, but that's part of the reason you keep it going. The function of the job you're passionate about usually comes with a slew of other headaches. These simple business tips just might help you save a whole lot of time and...
10 Best Practices to Boost Your Brand in 2021
Increasing your brand awareness is one of the most significant aspects of marketing your company. Running a business is challenging work. That's never been more true than in the past year. And 2021 doesn't seem to offer up any easy challenges so far. Focusing on...
How Do You Create a Landing Page?
Building landing pages on your company’s website is one of the most effective and directly impactful actions you can take in marketing. It means chaining your philosophy about what your site can do for your business, and lets you use all of the experience you’ve...
When Do You Need to Hire a Designer for Your Business?
When you’re running your business and doing it successfully, it’s easy to take for granted everything you’re an expert on. No matter how skilled or seasoned, we can all get caught up in the process and unintentionally be holding ourselves back. At Matcha Design we’ve...
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 their 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...
Matcha Design 2020 W3 Awards Gold Winner, Web Design and Branding, for “Esperanza Ranch”
The Tulsa, Oklahoma design and media firm Matcha Design has been awarded GOLD in the 2020 W3 Awards in the General Websites-Branding for Websites category. The W3 Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the people behind award-winning sites,...
Matcha Design (Tulsa) Named a Top B2B Creative & Design Company in Oklahoma
We help businesses find their groove, and connect with their customers in an authentic way. Tackling any challenge regardless of the size or scope of the project, Matcha Design is the perfect fit for companies looking to boost their brand with the help of our...
2020 Communicator Awards | Matcha Design Honored with 6 Awards
The Communicator Awards is the leading international creative awards program which honors creative excellence for communication professionals. The two-decades old competition includes the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations, identity work...
Matcha Design Takes Home Best of Show @ 2019 SIA Awards
The 17th Annual Service Industry Advertising (SIA) Awards recognizes advertising excellence across the industry including over five-hundred advertising agencies and 700+ institutions. This year's competition included 1,600 individual entries, with judges awarding 121...
Matcha Design Awarded GOLD in Agency of the Year 2019 by Ad World Masters
Counted among over ten-thousand advertising and design companies within the United States, Ad World Masters has awarded Matcha Design Gold 2019 Agency of the Year. Ad World Masters compiles data from eligible agencies within the US market, using artificial...
Matcha Design Named a Global Leader by Clutch!
“We are honored to be recognized by Clutch as one of the top B2B global leaders. At Matcha Design our passion and joy is serving our clients and building lasting relationships. Seeing them flourish and attain success in competitive marketplaces is what keeps us going,...
Matcha Design Recognized for Website & Corporate Logo Design at the 2019 International Davey Awards
Tulsa, Oklahoma based design firm brings home two Silver Awards at this year’s International Davey Awards for recent projects in website design and corporate logo branding. Sanctioned and judged top-tier professionals, Matcha Design continues to establish their...
Matcha Design Recognized as a Top Print Designer by Clutch
We all know good design when we see it, but we don’t always recognize the importance of it. Did you know that designers have 50 milliseconds to make an impression— positive or negative — on viewers? Investing in top-notch graphic design for digital media and print...
2019 Communicator Awards | Matcha Design Takes Gold and Silver
The internationally recognized The Communicator Awards honor the creative excellence of professionals within the communications field. Founded by leaders within the industry over two decades ago, the awards currently receive over 6,000 entries from agencies of all...
Matcha Design Wins Gold at The 16th Annual SIA Awards
Tulsa, Oklahoma based digital marketing firm Matcha Design has participated in the Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIA) for the past nine years, taking home multiple accolades that represent the quality product they deliver to clients. Judges awarded 136 Gold, 86...
Matcha Design Awarded at Fourteenth Annual 2018 International Davey Awards
Tulsa, Oklahoma based full-service design agency Matcha Design proudly received distinction at the 2018 International Davey Awards. Three of the firms entries have been awarded this year, bringing Matcha's total award tally to 308. The Davey Awards honor the...
Matcha Design Captures 8 AIVA Communicator Awards
TULSA, OK – For the 10thconsecutive year, Matcha Design has been recognized for its excellence in creative services by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. The Matcha team received eight awards of excellence and distinction from the 24th annual Communicator...