Are You In? from Environment Victoria on Vimeo.

Portable is currently working with Regional Development Australia – Murray on all aspects of the development of the site, including building a custom made Content Management System to assist with the areas of community newspaper, community groups, jobs and community services.

Portable built the site with the March team, developing a site based that was truthful to their design principles as well as web functionality.

ONE DREAM RUSH was an online film and video platform for one of the world’s coolest vodka brands, 42 Below. It features 42 second-long films from 42 internationally acclaimed directors and appears in English and Chinese.

The site was built upon a full video content management system with Flash front-end with full Flash deep linking to make it seem like a normal kid to the outside world.

Portable produced a video for Tourism Victoria of the internationally acclaimed hotel nestled in the hills of The Grampians in Western Victoria.

In June 2009 we launched our first digital project for the world’s most eccentric Japanese beer, Asahi. They market themselves in a way that is typical with Japanese off-beat culture, blending traditional Japanese iconography with weird modern twists. Did you ever see the Asahi beer pouring robot they created a few years ago? You’ll get my point.

We were crazed with Japanese-style enthusiasm when we started working on the Roku project. The Asahi Roku site is the culmination of work from a range of contributors, including our friends Chris and Rachel at Monster Children Magazine as well as Narelle Dobson who manages the Asahi account for Fosters, Antony McGreggor Dey from QM Codes who helped us put together the mobile site, the team at Urchin Design and of course us at Portable who were the digital project managers and developers.

The genesis of the project was the relationship that Asahi has had with Monster Children for over five years now. Monster Children has its own gallery in Paddington, Sydney where it shows art work from its global community of illustrators. The brand and “the community” wanted to do something meaningful, not in a dirty advertising kind of way, so they partnered. Six artists including Alex Kopps, Luca Ionescu, Stephan Marx, Beci Orpin, Andrew Pommier and Jonathon Zawada created original artwork to feature on the patented Asahi glasswear that you find in more tasteful bars around town or in your cupboard at home (come on, tell me you haven’t stolen one before).

We launched the Roku glasses in Sydney (roku means “six” in Japanese by the way) and Asahi flew in the artists from around the world to drink beer and watch people try to derive the artistic merit of the work on the walls that mimic the work on the glasses. Oh, it’s so hard to endorse a brand isn’t it, but all bias aside (we were also doing online marketing), the whole project felt natural and was a great integration, not just a cheap spend.

The website was a respectable exploration in online and mobile marketing for a brand like Asahi. Built in Flash, the site gives full limelight to the brand and the visual collateral that represented the project.

I have to be honest and objective here: we have ideological and SEOlogical oppositions to Flash-centric websites on the internet and never recommend building them as you can achieve more interesting and creative solutions with the restraints of ajax, CSS and html – however, the site is beautiful and does the collateral and the concept done great justice.

In addition to this, the mobile site is simple in functionality and was linked to QR code distributed through Monster Children magazine in Australia and New Zealand. Although the uptake was not that strong, the user-experience was and remains seamless for the mobile user. When people actually start to use QR codes then this site will be a sound reference point.

Portable produced a look into the collection for internationally renowned designers, MATERIALBYPRODUCT. Using nearly 10 film makers and photographers we tried to capture the energy of a fashion show.

MaterialByProduct: Trailer SS10 from Swappler on Vimeo.

Portable built the video site in conjunction with a group of committed teachers

We built the site in conjunction with the Ortolan team, focusing on good visual and interface design.

The Portable Film Festival is Australia’s premier online film destination – an ongoing international film festival with a difference. No cinema, no queue, no tickets. The Portable Film Festival is online, downloadable and completely portable. You can view it wherever and whenever you want to including online and on your iphone, ipod or mobile phone. We’re the film festival on your terms, on the go!

We program the world’s best short and feature films, curated by a dedicated programming team, who hunt down the best in contemporary narrative, music video, animation, online serial, cell phone capture and full feature length content.

The Green Institute is Australia’s new forum for connecting people with green ideas, Portable built the site in conjunction with the founders to establish their digital presence.

One of the first Portable Shops stores and a demonstration of the flexibility of the platform we have developed.

The first Portable Shops users and now expanded into the US.

Portable Shops is an online tool that allows fashion designers and stores to create, control and customise their presence online. It is designed to be used by designers, storeowners and people who are working in fashion businesses. It allows you to get online quickly and affordably. It also grows with you so as your business starts to expand, you won’t need to look for other solutions.

Forget the overheads involved with building your own website, the thousands of dollars spent on e-commerce facilities, the hassle of advertising and the arguments with your ‘creative’ web designer. With Portable Shops you can create a technologically sound and aesthetically innovative store that says exactly what YOU want it to say about YOUR label.

Depending on the package you opt for, you can either choose from a Portable Shops store template or completely design your own unique online store face and upload it. Whether you want a sharp and sleek monochrome store face, or a store saturated in neon and scribbled notes, it’s all up to YOU.

We worked with six leading Victorian chefs to document them creating their signature dish as part of the Victorian promotion at the International Food and Wine Festival in Orlando, Florida in September 2008.

Portable developed the interface design and identity for the Australian ethical job website.

Portable provided a technical solution for the leading business representative organisation in Melbourne.

Portable Content produced a 30 minute video for the AFL Players Association around the rules of gambling in elite sport. We also produced a quiz component for players to test their knowledge and linked this into the AFLPA database. Some big names starred in the project including Luke Darcy, David Schwarz and Malcolm Speed (ex. ICC Chairman).

In a world first, Portable is launching a brand new initiative called Docummunity, combining all the power of the new social web with creativity and storytelling from all over the world, to encourage the collaborative produciton of documentaries online.

Docummunity encourages members to upload short video clips, photographs or original music based on a specific theme for use in a long form documentary. By contributing to the community, members will be afforded access to all the other uploaded media in order to make their own version of the film.

The Ocean Eight website displays the top quality wines produced by the family including pinot noirs, chardonnays and Pinot Gris year in year out

The website promotes the work of one of Australia’s most unique wine makers. Showcasing the wine available, the site also allows customers to request orders.

Promotional site for recently released Ice Age 3 movie in conjunction with Bulla.

57% of Australians listen to community radio every week. Portable Content documented this process through building a Flash site and commissioning photographers to document the process.

OPEN Channel, in association with City of Melbourne and Portable Content, produced 8 shorts made by people with no previous filmmaking experience. Their brief? To make a film about what living in the Docklands means to them personally.

Portable ran an event with Adobe throughout 2008 and 2009 in Melbourne looking at the converge between creative, innovation and business.