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Matcha Design Wins Gold at The 2013 International Davey Awards
The International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) awarded Matcha Design with four awards at The 2013 Davey Awards this year. With nearly 4,000 entries from across the US and around the world, Matcha Design joins the finest creative work from the best small firms,...
A Birthday Letter to Google
In the last 15 years, many tech companies have done great things that have surpassed our imagination by leaps and bounds, but Google's unique achievements have indeed made the world a better place. Make knowledge accessible to anyone who can get online. By...
How We Build Your Website – Not the Tempo Skyscraper Way
When it comes to building a successful website, most businesses somewhat have an idea of what they want the site to achieve, and will bring a wish list or an actual site map to our initial consultation meeting. After the meeting, our team goes through a creative...
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...
Achieving World Class Customer Care Part 2
Effectively communicating and interacting with your clients is essential in any type of customer care situation. When interacting with your clients always remember to shake hands, make eye contact, and use age-appropriate greetings. Maintaining eye contact is...
Achieving World Class Customer Care Part 1
In today's fast paced world customers need access to information in a timely and efficient manner more than they ever have before. Speed is a priority, but giving your customers world class customer service should never take a back seat. Providing customer service can...
Make the Most of Meetings
Almost every morning, roughly around eleven, the Matcha Design team gathers together for a meeting which we fondly refer to as “regroup”. Our regroups usually consist of some light chit-chat, followed by an overview of what we finished the previous day and what we...
Color – More Than Meets the Eye
With Independence day right around the corner, there is a bevy of patriotic items strewn throughout the stores in our country. The red, white, and blue color scheme plays a key role during the month of July. You can find this combination in a variety of forms from...
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...
The Marketing Potential of Instagram Video
Have you ever scrolled through your Instagram feed, looked at a filtered photo, and thought, “I wish this was a movie”? Well, your wish has finally come true. On Thursday, June 20th, Instagram announced its new update featuring its fifteen second video capabilities...
How to Stay Inspired
One of the many challenges I often face is finding a good source of inspiration. I have wasted many hours away simply staring at the wall or a blank piece of paper trying to conjure a good idea. In some instances, the rare flicker of inspiration withers away before I...
Branding Social Media
Nowadays, you can find a Facebook fan page, Twitter, etc. for just about anything. This especially applies to many businesses. The world of social media has boomed within the past decade and companies have taken notice. As they began to delve into the world of social...
5 Cool Features of CSS3
Like HTML5, CSS3 is currently in draft form, and has varied support across the major browsers. All of the major browsers are at least developing support for the existing CSS3 properties, however. CSS3 goes hand-in-hand with HTML5 to make pages simpler by reducing...
5 New Features in HTML5
HTML5 is still a work in progress, and some parts are still being refined or are subject to change, but partial experimental support is already existent in most major browsers. At this point I wouldn't recommend building a whole website in HTML5 without any kind of...
Windows Live SkyDrive Review
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 -...
A brief overview of the Android platform for developers
Recently I was studying some finer points of application development on the Android platform, and I was inspired to share some basic information with those who may be unfamiliar with the system. The first thing you need to know about Android applications is that they...
Markup Validation
I've read plenty of articles about the all-importance of validation, and some about why validation isn't important. The articles that dismiss striving for the green light usually cite examples of people breaking down their code and inadvertently removing functionality...
Using iMac and Apple Cinema Display with the Mac Pro station
Using the 27" iMac (Summer 2010) as your second monitor does give you the benefit of a great desktop real estate, an additional of 2560X1440 pixels, and a pretty decent secondary computer at the same time. It's a little tricky to set all the gears up and the Apple...
Wrap-around Animation for Stadium LED
When people think of animation design, they usually think of a 16:9 or 4:3 ratio animation. We usually have a lot of freedom and pixel real estate to work with. Adding HD graphics, detailed videos are straightforward and pleasing to the eye, but when it comes to...
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