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Matcha Design Takes Home 7 Wins At the 2020 International Davey Awards
Tulsa based design firm Matcha Design receives seven awards at this year’s International Davey Awards. Winning 2 GOLD and 5 SILVER for their work on creative advertising and design for logos, print & digital media, corporate identity, and promotional branding....
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,...
How to Research Hashtags For Your Business
So many marketing and community management tasks are best left to in-house teams – particularly for small businesses. If your company fits that category, it’s likely you’re doing some DIY before you look for a third party agency… or your own marketing team wears a lot...
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...
Why Hire a Professional Photographer
Why pay to hire a photographer while uncle Bob's cousin will gladly do it for a combo meal? Simply, you want to present your company or your product well to increase sales. Anyone, literally anyone can and will take pictures with a mobile phone, pocket camera or a...
What are Keywords?
Keywords are words and phrases within the theme of your topic. When your goal is to attract traffic to your website, the content on your site or within your blogs should focus around topics related to your brand. To be more specific, those topics should be something...
How to Create Award-Winning Designs
Designing for the sake of winning awards is not the best way to express creativity, but it’s good to understand the mindset of competitions. By thinking outside of the box and incorporating some new philosophies you can give yourself the best leg up. Earning awards is...
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...
6 Ways To Build Brand Loyalty
For business owners, the idea of having loyal customers is a universal goal. It’s not so much that loyal customers can contribute to a known quantity of consistent business, but because loyal customers turn into advocates for your brand. “It’s easier to love a brand...
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...
Effective Logos Carry Emotional Weight
We have been designing logos and brand identities for decades. The most successful companies have instant recognition. Adopting a good design for your brand isn’t only about flair—it needs to serve you well for years. Effective design requires patience and meticulous...
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...
Understanding Space and Scale in Design
Whether the project is graphic, animation, video, architectural, or product design, fully understanding both space and scale is crucial. At the fundamental level, this is built upon spatial savvy — the effective use of whitespace, grouping, visual elements, or...
Understanding Color Principles
Color principles can make your design dynamic, once you understand them. Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physicals is the scientist attributed to the color wheel, in 1666. This circular diagram shows how colors are organized, and reveals their relationships to...
How to Create a Captivating Design
In the sensory overload that is our modern, information-based society, creating an impactful and captivating design is vital. As we each consume increasing amounts of content, a truly captivating design requires intent, skill, and to act with agency. While the phrase...
Finding the Right Tone
What does it mean to engage with your audience? When developing the right tone for a marketing strategy, one of the biggest challenges consists of discovering the ideal approach — capturing a voice and narrative that your intended demographic or audience will both...
How to Find Your Design Niche
As a designer, particularly if you’re jumping into the freelance market, setting yourself apart from the rest of the pack and make all the difference in your business growth and attracting new clients. Why is finding a niche so important? Credibility. While your...
Can Web Designers, Artists, and Writers Embrace Artificial Intelligence?
A surprisingly broad field, Artificial Intelligence isn’t just isolated to the computing sector; also encompassing the disciplines of philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology. Rather than simply understanding intelligence, the study of AI seeks to build & create...
How To Grow Your Brand On Instagram
First of all, having an online presence is imperious if you want to make sure that your business is going to be successful. One of the social networking sites that you should be interested in is Instagram because it allows you to tell a story by posting relevant...
How To Come Up With A Great Slogan And Taglines
With today's crowded marketplace, a great business tagline has never been more important. Whether for a specific product or for your entire business, an effective tagline can work wonders for your company's marketing. A tagline can succinctly convey a sense of your...
Good vs Bad Design – What Makes a Graphic Design a Good Design
Graphic design is the first thing people notice when they glance at a brochure for the first time, and if you don't want to make a bad impression then it is something that you really ought to consider for your own business literature. You can't make a first impression...
How Color Affect Our Mood And Purchase Decision Making
Colors Create Emotional Reactions: Color is light and light is energy. Scientists have found that actual physiological changes take place in human beings when they are exposed to certain colors. Colors can stimulate, excite, depress, tranquilize, increase appetite and...
Creative Like An Artist
Maybe you're reading this as someone who creates regularly and is delighted with your creative output in terms of the amount, the quality and the depth? Then congratulations! It's a stage that few creative people reach. If you're not currently feeling quite so...
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Strategy
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...
BlueSpeed Launches New Website to Engage Clients
BlueSpeed LLC launched their new website this week with help from design strategists at Matcha Design. The site was built around the new BlueSpeed identity branding, and includes custom photos of BlueSpeed's top-notch design portfolio from Chris Lo Photography, and...
More Than an Office Dog
At Matcha Design we are known for our award winning design projects and creative vision excellence. However, there is one key Matcha Design team member we have not yet introduced and would be a travesty not to highlight. We are pleased to officially introduce Pancake,...
FEDEL Music Photo Shoot with Matcha Design
This week Matcha Design had the opportunity to shoot press photos for FEDEL, an Oklahoma based Christian Hip-Hop artist. We needed to capture simple, yet engaging photos for the FEDEL to use for tour posters, social media, press opportunities and other collateral. We...
Matcha Design Partners with MidFirst Backyard Bowl for 2012 Stadium Animation
Tulsa, OK - August 31, 2012 - If you spend any time in Oklahoma you quickly realize football is king, and there are intense rivalries in both college and high school arenas. Jenks and Union high school athletes take the field every year in the MidFirst Backyard Bowl...
BlueSpeed Finds a New Face
Tulsa, OK - August 29, 2012 - Blue Speed LLC is one of the leading providers of home and commercial automation and lighting control design in Tulsa and northeast Oklahoma. The wanted to take their brand to the next level and reflect their passion for combining...
Matcha Design Produces Tulsa Marriage and Family Website and Logo
Tulsa, OK - August 24, 2012 - Matcha Design is excited to announce RestoringMarriageandFamily.com, an online hub for marriage tips, helpful relationship videos, local marriage seminars and appointment reservations for Brittain Keifer, Licenced Marriage and Family...
Chris Lo Invited to Judge 2012 W³ Awards
Tulsa, OK - July 27, 2012 - Chris Lo, President & CEO of visionary design firm Matcha Design, has been invited to serve on the judging panel for the 2012 W³ Awards in the categories of website, online marketing, mobile and video. “I am so honored to be a part of...
Matcha Design Produces Stadium Animation for the MidFirst Bank Sponsored Backyard Bowl
For nearly two decades, the Backyard Bowl has been an annual tradition for glory and bragging rights between the top 2 high school teams - Jenks and Union. Matcha Design is creating a Full HD Animation for MidFirst Bank, the official sponsor of the Backyard Bowl, to...
Matcha Design Photography Coverage for 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance
To commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary, Matcha Design will be a part of the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance to provide photography coverage for the Asbury United Methodist Church, Tulsa Oklahoma. Asbury is planning to mobilize over 1500 volunteers...
Rhema Bible Church Christmas Lights Extravaganza!
Since 1982, the Rhema Christmas Lights Display has become a main attraction for folks around Tulsa and Oklahoma every year. James Shelby, the creator and supervisor of the electrical department of Rhema, orchestrates this amazing project year after year and the size...
Launching of the New Nian En Church Introduction Video
Matcha Design is excited to announce the new introduction video for Nian En Church, a Chinese evangelical church, located in Hong Kong. We have done many videos for churches in the United States in the past, but this is the first one we have done for a client in...
Matcha Design Wins Big at the 13th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards
Awards and trophies need no introduction. Loads of people who say they hate them would secretly love to win one. While many businesses struggle to collect just a few or none, for Matcha Design – an award winning design firm, it comes in multiples on a regular basis...
Matcha Design Leads the Pack with 11 New Communicator Awards
Matcha Design earned two Gold Awards of Excellence and nine Silver Awards of Distinction in the 21st Annual Communicator Awards competition by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts. "This is the sixth year in a row that Matcha Design received awards in the...
Matcha Design Receives Six DesignFirms Awards for 2015
Tulsa, OK USA - April 14, 2015 - Matcha Design recently collected six prestigious awards from DesignFirms in both their Web Design and Graphic Design categories. The DesignFirms™ awards showcase some of the best work on the web from designers and developers from...
Matcha Design Picks Up 15 at the 2014 Service Industry Advertising Awards
Matcha Design brought home 15 new awards at the 12th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA). "It's always a great honor to receive such overwhelming recognition," said Chris Lo, President of Matcha Design. "We like to think that putting our clients first is...
Matcha Design Ranks Second on BestWebFirms.com’s Top Ten List
Matcha Design was ranked second on BestWebFirms.com's January 2015 top ten list of best custom web design companies. BestWebFirms.com provides monthly rankings as a guide to find the best of the best internet marketing firms in the industry. "We are extremely excited...
Matcha Design Picks Up Innovator Award at the 2014 Summit Emerging Media Awards
Matcha Design brings home an Innovator Award at the Summit Emerging Media Award (Summit EMA) competition held at the Summit International Awards. Matcha Design won this prestigious award for their work on Level 3 Communications' "Own It" interactive microsite. The...
Matcha Design garners a record 27 trophies at the 2014 SIA Awards
Matcha Design was honored with 27 national awards, including one Best of Show, from The 11th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA) for work in the print design, video production and website design fields. More than 1,700 entries were received from more...
Matcha Design Takes Home the Gold at the 2014 International Davey Awards
Matcha Design was presented with six awards at the 2014 International Davey Awards, sponsored by the International Academy of Visual Arts (IAVA). With nearly 4,000 entries from across the US and around the world, the Davey Awards honors the finest creative work from...
Matcha Design Earns Silver Winner at 2014 W3 Awards
The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts announced the winners of The 2014 W3 Awards today. Receiving over 4,000 entries, The W3 Awards honors outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, Web Video, Mobile Sites/Apps & Social content created by some of the best...
Matcha Design Wins Twice for The Best Web Design for Sky Loft at First Place Tower and Home Design Studio at the DesignFirms Web Awards
Tulsa, OK - August 25, 2014 - Matcha Design recently brought home two big wins from the DesignFirms web awards in the web design category for local Tulsa clients, Sky Loft at First Place Tower and Home Design Studio. The DesignFirms™ web awards showcase some of the...
Matcha Design Takes Home Three Big Wins Over the Summer with Graphic Design Awards from DesignFirms Web Awards
Tulsa, OK - August 25, 2014 - Matcha Design recently brought home three big awards from DesignFirms in the Graphic Design category for Tulsa based clients, The Maison Group and Oklahoma Energy Counsel and Kansas City based client, Moose Labs. The DesignFirms™ web...
Matcha Design Honored with 6 Winning Entries in the 2014 Communicator Awards
Tulsa, OK - July 1, 2014 - The winners of the 2014 Communicator Awards have been announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, and Matcha Design is proud to have been honored with awards for six projects. With over 6,000 entries received from across the US...