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10 Most Creative Entrepreneurs in the United States
Who are your business idols? The people who inspire you to get up every day and create interesting, new products and services for your customers? The people who paved the way for your business? I don’t know who your rockstars are, but I want to share 10 of mine with...
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....
Should I Join the Anti-Smartphone Revolution?
You may have heard about the dumb phone revolution or the anti-smartphone movement and thought, “That sounds intriguing!” This article is written for you. If you’ve ever wondered what it’d be like to spend less time on the internet, ditch your smartphone (or not use a...
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...
7 Challenges to Becoming Effective
If you haven’t read it, you’ve at least heard of the best-selling book, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey. The book has sold over 30 million copies since its 1989 debut and is extremely popular with business owners. Though the ideas in the book...
Branding Plan Basics
A branding plan is a vital first step in building your brand. Every “brick” of branding that you place for your company will be built upon the branding strategy. But what if you’re at a loss about how to develop a plan in the first place? In this article, we’ll cover...
Is ChatGPT a Modern Wonder?
ChatGPT was launched at the end of November 2022. It erupted onto the scene, taking a little under a month to elicit a strong response from supporters and dissenters alike. In this article, we’ll attempt to shed light on what ChatGPT is, giving a backdrop on some of...
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...
Elevate Your Profits With Good Design
Sometimes, I think about those brands that have become completely iconic. The ones where you could show their logo to anyone in any country and they would immediately know the name of the brand. And I wonder, how much of that company’s great success came from their...
Psychological Tricks to Improve Your Business
The human mind is powerful - and as a business owner, there are some psychological tricks you can use to improve your business. In this article, we’ll share customer service tips and mental techniques that will keep you focused on improvement. Read on to learn more!...
Top 25 Useful Things To Do Between Christmas & New Year
The days between Christmas and New Year are fantastic for helping us refocus, reconnect with our families and lives, and reflect on the year. There are plenty of useful things you can do during this time to get the most out of this experience - so here are our top 25...
30 Interview Questions for a Creative Team
If you’re in a position of leadership at a design company, chances are you’ll have to interview other prospective members of your creative team at some point. In this article, we’ll go over some of the best interview questions we’ve found. We’ll cover basic interview...
7 Challenges to Becoming Effective
If you haven’t read it, you’ve at least heard of the best-selling book, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey. The book has sold over 30 million copies since its 1989 debut and is extremely popular with business owners. Though the ideas in the book...
Branding Plan Basics
A branding plan is a vital first step in building your brand. Every “brick” of branding that you place for your company will be built upon the branding strategy. But what if you’re at a loss about how to develop a plan in the first place? In this article, we’ll cover...
Is ChatGPT a Modern Wonder?
ChatGPT was launched at the end of November 2022. It erupted onto the scene, taking a little under a month to elicit a strong response from supporters and dissenters alike. In this article, we’ll attempt to shed light on what ChatGPT is, giving a backdrop on some of...
Elevate Your Profits With Good Design
Sometimes, I think about those brands that have become completely iconic. The ones where you could show their logo to anyone in any country and they would immediately know the name of the brand. And I wonder, how much of that company’s great success came from their...
Psychological Tricks to Improve Your Business
The human mind is powerful - and as a business owner, there are some psychological tricks you can use to improve your business. In this article, we’ll share customer service tips and mental techniques that will keep you focused on improvement. Read on to learn more!...
Top 25 Useful Things To Do Between Christmas & New Year
The days between Christmas and New Year are fantastic for helping us refocus, reconnect with our families and lives, and reflect on the year. There are plenty of useful things you can do during this time to get the most out of this experience - so here are our top 25...
30 Interview Questions for a Creative Team
If you’re in a position of leadership at a design company, chances are you’ll have to interview other prospective members of your creative team at some point. In this article, we’ll go over some of the best interview questions we’ve found. We’ll cover basic interview...
The Importance of Social Responsibility to Your Company Culture
Every company has a cause today, and social responsibility has become a major determinant of whether consumers want to do business with your company. That said, social responsibility is still a highly-contested topic, and many believe it’s either unnecessary or even...
Christmas Marketing for Business Services
It’s easy to find holiday marketing tips for eCommerce businesses. There are all kinds of ways to repackage or bring awareness to products, but for business services, it gets a bit more tricky. After all, what you have to offer isn’t something you can simply hand...
The Power of Gratitude in Business
“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.” ~ David Steindl-Rast Practicing the art of gratitude is an ancient tradition that sparks joy and incites the power of ‘enough’. Happiness is a common side effect of continual thankfulness:...
How to Filter Your Knowledge
Today, we have more access to information than ever before. We no longer have to visit a library to find new information - we have ready access to information on our home computers and the phones in our pockets. That said, we also have more opportunities to put...
True Productivity
Everyone’s got their own definition of what productivity means. As a business owner, how do you gauge productivity, and what priorities do you hold onto? In this blog post, we’ll explore the meaning of true productivity and provide some strategies to help boost your...
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 Brings Home 23 Awards At 14th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards
Matcha Design, a full-service Tulsa-based Digital Marketing and Advertising agency dedicated to providing website development, social media marketing, photography, identity, and high-quality branding to businesses of any servicing kind, this week took home a...
Matcha Design Awarded 5 Distinctions At The 2016 International Davey Awards
Tulsa, OK – Matcha Design, a full-service digital design and website development company based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, this week announced they have won five distinct awards at this year’s International Davey Awards, a worldwide event designed to honor the...
UpCity Selects Matcha Design as One of Tulsa’s Best Web Designers
Matcha Design, a renowned web design and full-service creative agency, has been named one of the best web design firms in Tulsa by UpCity! The recognition was announced following the release of UpCity’s new Top Local Agency marketplace. UpCity selected Matcha Design...
Matcha Design Named One of Tulsa’s Top 20 Best Web Designers by Expertise
Matcha Design, a full-service graphic design and creative agency, has been hand-picked as one of the 20 best web designers in Tulsa. The recognition comes from Expertise, a Seattle-based company that specializes in connecting people with experts in their community....
Matcha Design Wins DesignFirms Award For Southern Hills Baptist Church Website
Matcha Design, a full-service graphic design and brand cultivation agency with a commitment to innovation and creativity in the logo and web design process, this week announced they have won a DesignFirms Award for their creation of the Southern Hills Baptist Church’s...
Matcha Design Wins 10 Awards at the 2016 Communicator Awards
Matcha Design, a full-service graphic design and brand cultivation agency with a flair for unique and eye-catching logo and web design, this year, for the seventh year in a row, took home a plethora of awards from the Communicator Awards. Recognized for their...
Matcha Design Wins Silver at the 2015 W3 Awards
Prestigious awards were once again given at the recently held 2015 W3 Awards that was powered, sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA.) Regarded as an award platform where creative excellence on the web as well as the people behind...
Matcha Design Bags Four Awards at the 2015 International Davey Awards
Oklahoma, USA, February 6, 2016 – About 4,000 entries were received for the 2015 Davey Awards – an international creative award focused exclusively on honoring outstanding creative work from the best small agencies worldwide. It is however worth mentioning that out of...
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
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 around the world, elevating the...
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...