As the age old saying goes, "timing is everything". You don't have to be living very long to understand this concept, but how many times do we ignore this idea when it comes to our social media messaging? If you have any social media accounts for your business or...
Matcha Design - Friday, September 7, 2012 In early September, we shot a magazine cover featuring a family who had overcome adversity in their lives. Not only did we need to get an engaging cover shot that left room for plenty of surrounding text, but we had to capture...
This past month I experienced my very first Matcha Design commercial photo shoot. BlueSpeed, an Oklahoma company specializing in home and commercial automation and lighting design, requested pictures of their technology work. We traveled to a beautiful home near...
In today's creative world it seems like every teenager, mom, scrap-booker or receptionist considers themselves a professional photographer. Now, before you take me the wrong way, I am not saying these people do not have an eye for photography. They may actually be...
Having relevant design communications is pivotal in any industry; however, in light of budgetary and manpower obstacles many times nonprofit organizations lack the creative luster for-profit agencies can obtain. To overcome these obstacles, nonprofit agencies resort...
This week I want to get into some more details along the lines of last week's info on creating emails for varied mail clients. For starters, I got some statistics on email client popularity from CampaignMonitor.com. Here are the clients with more than 5% market share....
When building a web page, one must always keep in mind the differences between the way browsers implement (or don't implement) web standards. When building emails, this is much, much worse. For starters, there are no specific standards regarding what should and...
Microsoft recently released SkyDrive, a web-based storage and sharing utility. In addition to being a handy way to access up to 25GB of your files from pretty much anywhere, as well as optionally share those files with others, SkyDrive features Office Web Apps -...