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It seems these days you can't have an agency without flashing strategic credentials. Taboo subscribes to the creed that any strategy worth its weight in budget will be a carefully designed plan to murder the competition.

We strive to develop for our clients an ingenious path to achieving their goals. One that never deviates from its purpose. Whatever form our strategies take, it will not be the straight forward application of a formula, but a creative plan based upon competitive assessments.

Driven by brand heritage and insights that reflect crying consumer needs, our strategies leverage sustainable competitive advantage to enforce a position impenetrable to imitators. Our craft is to recognize where your market is going, and stake your claim at the precise moment it occurs to everybody else the time has arrived.

The Greenhouse Backpacker is ideally located in historic Flinders Lane, a heritage precinct in the heart of cosmopolitan Melbourne renowned for its bohemian atmosphere, art hubs, hidden laneways, alfresco dining and famous coffee culture.

Described by the Lonely Planet as being ‘brilliantly located in the thick of things…bright, friendly and extremely well run with excellent facilities,’ it’s no surprise that the Greenhouse Backpacker has been awarded ‘Best Backpacker Accommodation’ on multiple occasions by both Tourism Australia and Tourism Victoria.

Feel right at home from the moment you set foot in the hostel! Embrace the free WIFI, light up the BBQ with mates and enjoy our rooftop terrace views, start your day with a complimentary breakfast, on Tuesday evenings tuck into a Pasta or BBQ dinner, tuck into a Big Breakfast on Thursday mornings, wake to the aroma of fluffy golden pancakes on sleep-in Sundays, and show off your culinary skills in our spotless communal kitchen.

A Facebook app where users can pledge their support for the women and their families affected by ovarain cancer by signing the Witchery Whiteboard.

By signing up, users raised awareness for the insideous disease, and agreed to wear white on a Ovarian Cancer Research Fund's specified day.

Through the app, users could opt to sign the board, share the project with friends, and donate to OCRF.

NAB Student Collective Facebook Application

Simple, convenient and cost-effective, Smart Menus takes the hassle out of designing, printing and updating your menus.

Our templates require no previous design skills and are easy to customise to perfectly suit your business.
- You not only want great-quality menus, but menus that suit the aesthetics of your business.

Our fast and reliable service saves time and provides you with the flexibility to quickly update your menus in line with escalating costs.
- It’s hard to make the time and effort to regularly update your menus when you’ve got a business to run and customers to satisfy.

Our low pricing and free delivery allows even the smallest business to offer high-quality presentation with their menus.
- You want to have a menu that reflects the standards you already have for your food and service.

Our all-inclusive price means you won’t have to spend valuable time shopping around for printer quotes and comparing design fees.
- Because you want more time to focus on your staff and customers.

This iPhone application enabled the user to obtain information about show events using an interactive calendar. The map made use of the inbuilt GPS in the iPhone and, as such, users were able to determine where in the showgrounds they were in relation to where they needed to be, and to use the map to help them get there.

The iPhone app was one of the highest paid applications on the Australian iTunes store for the duration of the Sydney Royal Easter Show!

C2 worked in conjunction with Taboo to develop the MIMCO Whispers and Anarchy facebook application.

As a part of their new season launch... "Whispers & Anarchy", MIMCO are giving customers 15% off the New Season Collection when using the MIMCO Whispers Facebook App. Be a friend… share the whisper.

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Working in collaboration with Taboo, we were approached to build a home for chuck and all of his facebook friends.

Chupa Chups wanted to leverage it's large number of facebook friends to create a home where people could use their existing facebook profiles to log in and invite their freinds using their facebook account.

To do this we implemented facebook connect functionality allowing users to the site to be able to view what their friends were doing on the site, invite friends to the site and post comments to their news feeds.  Video and photo galleries of festivals and events where chuck has appeared are featured on the site. Each post can be liked, shared and commented on and posted to facebook.

Despite the awesome design by Taboo, the site is fully controlled via the Gloo CMS and allows staff to quickly upload videos and  photos of events with a minimum of fuss, where the chupa chups crew have hung out.

Work Behind a Bar

Sail The Whitsunday Islands

Simulation Medical

JAWS

Ford - Big Spring Clean

Visa Chatterbox

Bluenova

Apropos

The Women's Subscription Enterprise is a new social enterprise by The Big Issue Australia that provides employment, training and pathway opportunities for disadvantaged women.

Jeremy Ley can draw anything…well, pretty much anything. There are a few things he can’t draw, those being the Prophet Muhammad, a perfect freehand circle, and one million dots on a post-it note. Apart from that he’s got it covered.

CafeScreen operates a network of digital signs and free WiFi Internet hotspots in CBD cafes targeting high value and elusive CBD business professionals. In establishing their digital signage network they have also built Australia’s largest network of free WiFi Internet hotspots. CafeScreen offers marketers a unique, high quality media footprint that connects brands with an elusive audience of CBD business professionals in a highly engaging, premium out-of-home format. C2 was instrumental in the development of the presentation infrastructure as well as the creation of the broadcast interface.

Portfolio site for Melbourne photographer, Jesper Nielsen.

The little things we love about our town.

The programme website keeps track of sales of Pioneer products for each individual sales person. Each product is assigned a score and at the end of every month, those sales people with the highest score are awarded prizes. In addition to tracking sales, the application provided information on all the products included in the promotion as well as details on the prizes and a leader board to foster a competitive spirit.

e-commerce site for MMA retailer.

Engaged by AIMIA to develop the branding and the website for their annual conference,V21.

New home for The Big Issue family.

Established in Melbourne in 1964 Jackson Architecture is an international practice with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Shenyang and London. Jackson Architecture has gained an international reputation for high quality consultation based on an ability to synthesise the conflicting demands of creativity, community planning, cost effectiveness and quality design.

C2 were engaged by Studio Exit to build all of the digital collateral for the new Subaru America "Share the Love" campaign.

Todd & Dave reckon there should be a way to brag to your mates, here and abroad, about how choice our country is and how awesome you are at making the most of it.

Our New Zealand is a video sharing site that promotes all that is great about New Zealand through the experience of everyday Kiwis.

C2 were charged with bringing this concept to life. The brief was to create a distinctly Kiwi brand and website and promote the adventurous side of New Zealand without adhering to the pervasive Web 2.0 look and feel. The result was a richly graphical, slightly off-the-wall concept reinforcing the give-it-a-go, up-for-anything spirit of the modern Kiwi.

The final delivery included a website controlled by a powerful Content Management System (CMS) and a web service allowing third-parties to access specific lists of videos.

Now everyone can share in the wonders of the New Zealand country and the Kiwis that inhabit it. Wickud!

BBC Competition Microsites

We were commisioned by BBC Worldwide to design and build a series of microsites for their various Australian Pacific territories.

The microsites featured a questioannaire and showed that filling out online forms don't need to be a painful and boring experience. Especially when there was free advertising worth $10,000 for the winner!

The site was hooked into the Gloo CMS and featured a competition module that tracked who and what was answered and all other entry data.

It was a great way for the BBC to reach out to all of their customers, engage them and let them know what they were doing in the marketplace.

iPhone app that tells you when your next tram is arriving. Enter the tracker ID (found at every tram stop in Melbourne, Australia) and get the arrival time of the next three trams - you can also filter the results by tram number. Available on iTunes

In the world of terrible hat crimes, the Truffaux shines as a beacon of hope.

A truffaux hat is crafted from the finest Panama straws, forged using vintage blocks, exquisitely comfortable, richly handwoven and genuinely stunning.

Approached by Oska Truffaux to bring his vision for a world free of hat-crimes to the web, we designed and built the E-Commerce site for this boutique fashion label.

As you can see from the design, the site is all about the hat itself and this is reflected in the large amount of imagery featured. The people at Truffaux needed to be able to have a fair amount of control over the design and its layout etc so we built them a site which contains a CMS that includes a number of pre-defined template styles allowing them to add different styles of pages according to the content. Once they add their lovely words and pictures they can then publish straight to the site.

As they say "The Truffaux is the result of our genuine desire to make the world a stranger, more beautiful place". Join them!

This site is a tool for the Cook Islands Tourism board to promote the Cook Islands a sa holiday destination through the images and videoas of others and the tme they spent there.

The Cook Islands Experience website allows visitors to the islands to share their experiences by uploading videos and pictures. In turn, prospective visitors can see the destination through the eyes of those who have enjoyed it instead of the glossy brochure pictures found at travel agents.

We built a site with a CMS that allows tourists to upload photos and videos of their time in the Cook Islands. All video conversioin and processing is handled server side and does all of the work for the user. Other features include newsletter funcationality, event booking and competitions.

It's the perfect site to get you thinking about your next holiday!

Gorman iPhone app.

We designed and developed a cool new iPhone app for Gorman that brings the store to your phone and keeps you up to date with all that happeninig in the world of Gorman!

The app is fully controlled and updatable by a CMS so it's a  great tool for them to promote their new collections and season ranges.

The app includes all of the latest catwalk collections, products, news and store locations. You can see what is going on behind the scenes, new products that will hit the stores soon and what's on sale. As soon as a new range leaves the catwalk or a new range hits the shelves, it can be pushed straight to the app.

It features the ability to share/tag fave product with friends via your email, Twitter and Facebook wall. Also contains a very cool competitio feature which allows the girls in at Gorman to offer prizes such as gift vouchers to people who download the app.

Close Brothers Group is an independent merchant bank headquartered in London with offices around the globe.

C2 were approached to build a corporate intranet for their staff of over 2,500. Having such a large number of staff spread over so many locations meant that an intranet was crucial as a business and communication tool.

One of the main requirements was to build a system which offered multiple levels of authorship and access. This was necessary as no one person would be responsible for all the content but the staff from the different departments.

We provided them with access and ownership definition – the ability to define different levels of access and administrators to manage and control different areas. For instance, editiors can create and add content but only administrators can then sign off and publish the content.

Other features include:

• Staff Directory showing realtionships between various staff members and departments.
• Staff Status Indicator
• News section
• Chairman's Blog
• Office locator
• Media Centre – Pictures, documents and other collateral used by the marketing and Communications departments.
• Multiple content templates featuring jQuery.

The intranet is now an indespensible part of their day to day activities throughout the business.
 

A program run by The Bis Issue, the Community Street Soccer Program changes lives and builds healthy communities.

As the digital partner of the The Big Issue we designed and built  site that would showcase the work and participants of the program as well as provide infomation for those looking to get involved.

The site is a mix of background and program informatioon as well containing player profiles, photos and video libraries of all of the variuous tournaments and events held around the country.

Plugged into the Gloo CMS, it allows all site content to be added quickly and easily. The CMS features a custom tout system which allows the site's administrators to define which touts appear on which page. The touts which appear throughout the site include: news, palyyer profiles, videos, twitter tweets and newsletter sign ups.

An integrated site that combines custom design with CMS flexibility for a great cause.

McBride Charles Ryan

We were asked by our friends at BuroNorth to take their designs and turn them into a fully updatable flash portfolio site.

The finished product features video backgrounds with an intuitive and engaging portfolio layed over the top.

Every element of the site is controlled by a CMS and includes video uploading and conversion.

The result is a striking and engaging way to show off their impressive portfolio of work.