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Join Portable As A Digital Producer

By Roseanne Tiziani | March 29th, 2013 in General

Portable is looking for a talented, driven and experienced digital producer and account manager to work across the wide range of clients that the company currently services. Based in Melbourne, you will use your previous experience in a similar role to manage…

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Taking Back Retail and the TFIA

By Roseanne Tiziani | March 21st, 2013 in General

In late 2011, Portable’s Managing Director Simon Goodrich shared his digital strategies in a series of workshops for the Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA). Through three seminars guests were equipped with the knowledge to understand and build effective digital…

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Portable Presents Taking Back Retail

By Roseanne Tiziani | March 6th, 2013 in General

Portable is thrilled to introduce Taking Back Retail, a new book by founders Andrew Apostola and Simon Goodrich. Due to be released in June this year, Taking Back Retail outlines how traditional retailers and fashion brands can reclaim the ground lost to…

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Portable Sponsors DrupalCon Sydney 2013

By Roseanne Tiziani | January 17th, 2013 in General

Portable is proud to announce our sponsorship of DrupalCon Sydney 2013, the world’s leading conference for digital content management system Drupal. Established in 2005, it is the first time this international conference has been held in the Southern Hemisphere. As an online platform…

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Portable Presents leading international design practitioner Debbie Millman

By Madeleine Gasparinatos | January 15th, 2013 in General

This February, Portable is pleased to present leading international design practitioner Debbie Millman. There are very few designers who are more experienced in the world of branding and visual communication than Debbie Millman. Based out of New York, Debbie has shaped the…

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Svbscription Gathers International Media

By Roseanne Tiziani | January 10th, 2013 in General

At Portable we busy ourselves creating innovative solutions for clients, but we also love working on our own projects. Early last year Portable’s Creative Director, Andrew Apostola, joined forces with Marc Goldenfein (ex-editor of The Vine) and New Yorkers Sam Wheeler and…

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Lookbook and the Business of Fashion

By Roseanne Tiziani | December 6th, 2012 in General

The Portable Presents series for 2012 finished in style with the founders of LOOKBOOK.nu engaging audiences along Australia’s east coast. Yuri Lee and Andy Chen explored the trajectory of their site which, since its launch in 2008, has grown into the world’s…

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Advancing The Digital Agenda

By Roseanne Tiziani | November 23rd, 2012 in General

Portable’s Managing Director, Simon Goodrich, and Senior Digital Producer, David Oakley, will present a session on the power of digital storytelling at FWD2012, to be held in Melbourne on the 28th and 29th of November 2012. Based on the existing eCampaigning Forum…

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Portable Explores Poetry with The Red Room Company

By Madeleine Gasparinatos | November 18th, 2012 in General

Portable has been pleased to work with The Red Room Company to develop a unique mobile application that allows people to explore and experience poetry in a new medium. We worked closely with The Red Room Company to create The Disappearing. This application allows…

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Time To Party For Svbscription

By Roseanne Tiziani | November 14th, 2012 in General

Portable celebrated the success of the inaugural Svbscription x Broadsheet Collaboration with parties held at Captains of Industry, Melbourne, and Somedays in Sydney. The creative partnership saw both companies team up to create a limited edition parcel to coincide with the release…

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Portable Presents LOOKBOOK’s Yuri Lee

By Madeleine Gasparinatos | November 4th, 2012 in General

RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW Portable is proud to present Yuri Lee, founder of one the fastest growing and most influential fashion and style platforms on the internet. Launched in San Francisco in 2008, LOOKBOOK.nu is today used by thousands of stylists, photographers, designers…

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Portable Presents: Kirby Ferguson

By Roseanne Tiziani | November 4th, 2012 in General

With his fresh take on contemporary culture, Kirby Ferguson this week engaged audiences across Australia’s east coast as part of the Portable Presents series.  He is best known for his four-part video series Everything Is A Remix which he recently presented at…

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Showing The Accountants How To Innovate

By Roseanne Tiziani | October 31st, 2012 in General

Simon Goodrich, Portable’s Managing Director, has presented at the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia’s recent session titled ‘Social Business Innovation – Driving The Digital Future’. In the aim of narrowing the gap between academic, business and government sectors and their influence on…

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Our Inaugural Curators Conference in New York and Melbourne

By Roseanne Tiziani | October 2nd, 2012 in General

Portable’s inaugural Curators Conference, held in Melbourne and New York, brought together creative minds to explore the intersection between culture, content and business.  The day-long conferences exposed professional creatives and those interested in modern culture to the experiences of guest presenters, whilst…

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Countdown to Curators Conference

By Madeleine Gasparinatos | September 27th, 2012 in General

RESERVE CURATORS CONFERENCE TICKETS NOW Portable’s inaugural Curators Conference Melbourne is nearly upon us. This Tuesday, 2nd October, the Fitzroy Town Hall will become the centre of activity as it hosts a one day event featuring some of the leading curators and creators…

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Updated Curators Conference Schedule

By Madeleine Gasparinatos | September 18th, 2012 in General

Portable is proud to present the Curators Conference, a one day event featuring the presentations, ideas and conversations of some of the leading curators and creators of culture and business. We look forward to exploring and provoking audience discussion through our nine…

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Portable’s Curators Conference

By Madeleine Gasparinatos | August 7th, 2012 in General

Following the announcement of Portable’s Curators Conference 2012 in New York City, Portable is proud to present the Australian edition in Melbourne this October. This one day event will be presented as an intimate and open conversation featuring pioneering Australian and international…

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Portable Presents Kirby Ferguson

By Madeleine Gasparinatos | July 18th, 2012 in General

Portable is proud to present a series of exclusive talks with US creative and cultural leader Kirby Ferguson. Based out of New York, Kirby is part of a new breed of creatives using the internet to execute entire projects. As a writer,…

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Elenberg Fraser Web Build

By Madeleine Gasparinatos | July 8th, 2012 in General

Portable has worked with Elenberg Fraser since 2011 and have been thrilled to build and implement their visually striking new web presence. To coincide with the architecture firm spreading their wings from being a Melbourne based company, to now working across the…

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Fashion on Film at VIVID Sydney

By Roseanne Tiziani | July 6th, 2012 in General

In collaboration with VIVID Sydney, Portable’s Fashion on Film event showcased a selection of the best films from fashion’s biggest players. Audiences were exposed to the creativity, inventiveness and fine eye of both local and international filmmakers and designers. Held at the…

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