Welcome to The Reactor, an advertising agency, design studio, digital media and experiential specialists.

We achieved a ‘Best Ad’ gong for our merry-go-round spot for the Australian Bullion Company. www.bestadsontv.com
NEWS: ‘Best Ad’ for ABC
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Hairy Lemon is the perfect pick me up for people who feel like they’ve been to a music festival. So who better to target for a summer campaign for our new client? You guessed it, festival goers. The combination of the target audience and product created some awesome media and creative opportunities that we grabbed with both hands. Then we raised both those hands in the air and, well, you get the rest.
Recover this summer with Hairy Lemon
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Our latest Radio campaign for Australian Bullion Company includes merry-go-rounds, dodge’m cars and roller coasters…
Merry-Go-Rounds for ABC
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For our latest creative concept for the Sydney Aquarium we created a watery wonderland that is as magical as the Aquarium itself. Shot by Carlos Alcade with crew at CI Studios and retouched by Charlie Jackson at CI Pixel, we created a fish tank of deep-sea friends, gave them iconic Sydney buildings to play amongst and extended the invitation to ‘Discover a New World.’
Discover a new world – The Aquarium
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We are proud to announce the birth of our launch campaign for Tinitrader.com.au coming in at 6 pounds 8 ounces…
It’s a… Website
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Headquartered in the historic Melbourne Mint Building, the resurrection of the new Melbourne Mint has been a process that has made the most of every one of The Reactor’s specialist skills. In partnership with Melbourne Mint, we developed the brand, physically created the stunning, contemporary interactive spaces, and filled it with inspirational audio-visual content and information for potential investors on the beauty and power of gold.
The Reactor Launches Melbourne Mint
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We featured international cover-girl Robyn Lawley in Maggie T’s Summer 2012 range for their new catalogue.
Summer for Maggie T
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The Alliance of Australian Retailers was formed by service station, milk bar and convenience store owners – those who often find themselves at the forgotten end of retail. Struggling for an opinion platform, they found themselves unable to express the negative impact the Federal Governement’s proposed plain packaging policy would have on their businesses. With this campaign, they finally have a voice.
Alliance of Australian Retailers
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On the set of our latest shoot for Maggie T’s Summer catalogue, we received a surprise visit from the channel ten news team, hoping to catch a glimpse of (and interview with) our model, international success story Robyn Lawley.
NEWS: The Reactor on 10
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We helped ESAA out with a brand refresh for their website and marketing collateral by transforming their logo into a whole look and feel.
Esaa
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Petroleum Development Oman is the foremost exploration and production company in the Sultanate. Accounting for more than 70% of the country’s crude-oil production and nearly all of its natural-gas supply. We created, as part of our ‘Space’ initiative, a design piece featuring the local Arabian Leopard to be on display in the NIMR office.
Arabian Leopards for Petroleum Development Oman
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In our latest TVC for the Bike Exchange and Giant Bikes giveaway collaboration, “21 bikes in 21 days,” aired during the Tour de’ France. with a Giant defy road bike won every day for three weeks on bikeexchang.com.au, we used a calendar visual to introduce the competition. We were also pretty excited to see our new Bike Exchange logo racing around! …Win a Bike, Win a Bike, Win a Bike, Win a Bike, Win a Bike. Take a look by viewing more.
Giant Bikes + Bike Exchange
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All that’s missing is you and your BMX. We suggest riders complete the scenes by visiting bikeexchange.com.au.
Bike Exchange
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‘Australasia’s most influential creative advertising trade magazine,’ Campaign Brief officially named the Reactor HOT on its HOT or NOT list for 2012 following a series of polls by its readers. Not bad for an agency only four years young. The daily newspaper for advertising creatives in Austraila, New Zealand and Asia, visit the Campaign brief blog online.
NEWS: We are HOT
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When we were approached by Siemens to help dispel the myth that there’s nothing exciting about cables, we thought we’d do something a bit special and commissioned a local artist to create an artwork that would wrap it up once and for all. To channel our inner chakra, we took Siemens flexible cables to a yoga class and photographed the sculpture to deliver a truly unique campaign that showcases the adaptability, of flexibility.
Getting Flexible for Siemens
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When Wellington Phoenix Football Club approached us with a boring QR code dilemma, how could we not be inspired by their mighty Phoenix mascot? With a barcode reader now in everyone’s pocket, we had to take a unique approach towards an essential marketing tool. And here you have it; quick and effortless transportation to the club’s web page is now available via Phoenix.
Wellington Phoenix Football Club gets QR
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Our latest campaign for Fred&Frank is straight from the streets of NYC included a launch parade at the block projects in Richmond.
Fred&Frank NYC
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All the way from the Netherlands, The Reactor welcomes Vanmoof bicycles. A young, ambitious Dutch company born out of a love for bikes, we are excited to help them share their fresh approach to inner city mobility and join them in their goal of to getting the stationary city dweller moving around town with speed and style. One country at a time. Visit Vanmoof online.
News: Welcome Vanmoof
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We have launched the new summer range for Feathers with a fresh campaign inspired by the classic charm of a European summer.
Feathers European Summer
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When the PGA approached The Reactor to develop their latest campaign for the Tour of Australasia, we looked to Bear Grylls for inspiration and a came up with a new approach that reveals the natural hunt at the core of every game. We continued our TVC’s intrepid explorer theme, for Instore, Print, Outdoor and Online incarnations (including a camouflage buggy) to produce a widespread campaign that proved a huge step forward for the PGA.
It’s Golf Season for the PGA
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When the VTHC approached the Reactor to help them appeal to the public, we were happy to help out, creating our ‘There For You’ campaign. With an interactive print campaign arriving in letterboxes everywhere and an accompanying T.V ad, we highlighted the scope of the public sector’s contribution to local communities and made sending the message and giving back simple and accessible.
‘There for you’
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Take a look at what we got up to behind the camera with some images from the Bike Force TVC Shoot.
Behind The Scenes
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Featuring topless pro golfers and their clubs, our ‘golfing exposed’ campaign was pretty popular, causing a media feeding frenzy. Not only did the story appear in all the papers but George Negus even felt the need to investigate the reasons young professional golfers turn to stripping for the camera and featured the campaign on his show, ’6.30 with George Negus.’
The Reactor on Negus…
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For the ismycv.com TVC shoot we had a cast of 1000′s (well 100′s) check out what happened behind the camera…
ismycv.com backstage
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Iconic Dutch bicycles Vanmoof teamed up with Grolsh beer to help to create there very own streamlined bike in celebration of their Australian launch. Stripped of all the non essentials (the 24-beer capacity handlebar basket not being one of them) our latest campaign highlights the urban-proofed customised bike and invites beer lovers to check out what happens when two famous dutch brands meet in a bar, have a few and get together.
VANMOOF + Grolsch
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13,000 casualties. 250,000 hours. 3,000 volunteers. For 125 years the St John’s charity has made major contributions to communities Australia-wide, whilst maintaining their volunteering ethos. So our latest winter campaign for St. John Ambulance presents the facts and calls on the public to dig deep into their pockets and help fund the $5 million dollars in operating costs that these modern day heroes rely on every year.
St John Ambulance
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Petroleum Development Oman is the foremost exploration and production company in the Sultanate. Accounting for more than 70% of the country’s crude-oil production and nearly all of its natural-gas supply, Petroleum Development Oman is owned by the Government of Oman and Royal Dutch Shell. A huge to client to welcome to the Reactor.
News: New Client
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There’s nothing quite like a new bike. And we thought that was just what our friends at bikeexchange.com.au needed when they came to us to refresh their look and logo. Taking their existing colour palette, we took inspiration from real life cyclists… and their bikes, to create a new logo for the company that really personifies what they do.
New Logo: Bike Exchange
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Up against our Bear Grylls look-alike, the Jungle, Desert and Ocean didn’t stand a chance in our latest campaign for the PGA.
PGA Backstage
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Via our retail design spaces initiative, The Space, The Reactor created the “Inconvenience Store” to show how plain packaging will destroy the value of brands and create confusion for customers. As warnings get bigger, alcohol, soft drink and confectionery labels follow in the footsteps of tobacco, the AAR sounded the early warning with maximum effect.
The InConvenience Store
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Last-minute accommodation service Need it Now came to us in need of an aural revamp, so we channeled our inner rock-stars to create a new sound. Sung to the tune of ‘All Right Now’ by Free, it’s currently rocking in our latest national TV and radio campaign. Watch the T.V spot by viewing more and see if you can resist the urge to visit needitnow.com and book your next holiday – it’s contagious.
Need it now…
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Be flashed back to your childhood as we bring back the paperdoll and turn it into a brand name and campaign for stylist Lara Reynolds.
Paperdoll
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From one century to the next: the Professional Golf Association are celebrating 100 years of golf in Australia. To help celebrate their centenary, the Reactor’s new look for the PGA draws on golfing history, featuring images of the beginnings of golf in Australia in 1911, including some classic hats, to evoke the timelessness of the gentleman’s game.
100 Years of Golf
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“I don’t drink water, fish #$&@ in it.” Small World Foods wanted a big new voice, so we gave them Napoleon, W.C. Fields, Beethoven and Virginia Woolfs’ for starters. Pairing such gems as, “A morning without coffee is like sleep,” with samplings of fresh deliciousness that can only have come from our friends at Small World, we created a campaign that will have you drooling over your keyboard.
Small World
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When given the task of highlighting the sell it, buy it, ride it messaging of BikeExchange.com.au, “We wanted to keep it simple, with a very clear message, ‘Bought it’ talks directly to the novice all the way through to the experienced cyclist.” The Campaign will run nationwide during the Tour De’ France 2012 to reach and inspire the maximum number of bike lovers and potential bike lovers alike.
Bike Exchange ‘Bought it’
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We invited golfers to put together their perfect team and compete in one of Australia’s largest sports events, Holden Scramble…
Who’s Your Fantastic Four?
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Broken clubs and broken ego’s… We ask to end the cruelty against golf club abuse by getting a lesson from your local PGA pro.
End the cruelty…
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Our campaign for the AAR challenged the Governments plain packaging cigarettes policy due to effects on the illegal tobacco trade.
Illegal Trade
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Our latest campaign for the new job search company with a twist, ismycv.com.au… the online job search where the employer finds you. Directed by Richard Grey (check out his latest film Summer Coda starring Rachael Taylor and Alex Dimitriades) and shot in busy Melbourne Street, a.k.a. visy park car park, this campaign highlights the importance of standing out when it’s the employer doing the searching.
‘Stand Out’ with ismycv.com.au
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The PGA asked us to Re-Brand their major tournament, The PGA Championship and with the biggest names in golf competing and Coca Cola the major sponsor, we had to turn up the heat. Set against a backdrop inspired by the tournament’s unique location of sunny Coolum, QLD, our national campaign showcased the star line-up including Greg Norman and Jason Day in an event first.
Heating up with the PGA
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To celebrate the role of teachers in Victorian Schools we developed a film competition for students that generated 100′s of entries.
Vic Institute of Teaching
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To break the boredom of current in-store messages, we created a voice for mans best friend… blackmail.
Fido Gets Angry
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Armed with confectionery, we managed to feature these tiny tots on our new website for Fred&Frank Kids clothing.
Fred&Frank Online
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To air during the Tour De’ France, we created a TVC campaign for one of Australia’s largest bicycle chains, Bike Force. With 20 stores Australia-wide and an established online presence, Bike Force Australia’s expanding brand needed a new positioning. ‘Time to get serious’ challenged cafe cyclists to consider upgrading the old squeaky Repco and be the first off the mark to ensure maximum latte time and minimum lyrca-clad rear end viewing.
Time to get serious with Bike Force
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BikeExchange showed their support for Cadel Evans with this press campaign that also coincided with the launch of their new logo.
Cadel Wins in France
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We took to the streets for Feathers Boutique’s latest winter campaign. Featuring a stylistic focus on the stark contrast and beauty of a wintery urban landscape, we completed the look and feel with some feathered friends to accompany our model. We featured the black and white campaign on rock posters, outdoor, print and online to get Feathers’ winter range out into the Melbourne elements.
Carn’ the Crows
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Kevlar never looked this good. The Reactors’ newly design ‘Optix’ camo jeans for our friends at Draggin Jeans. Instore now.
Draggin Jeans ‘Optix’
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Were very excited to do our bit for the environment by teaming up with new hybrid car service company eChauffeur and helping them create a look and feel that would make even Al Gore green with envy. Bringing personal and corporate Eco-friendly transportation to the streets of Melbourne, eChauffeur utilises the state-of-the-art green automotive technology of the self charging, low consumption, low emissions Camry.
Travel ECO with eChauffeur
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New Zealand designer Trelise Cooper approached us to create a brandmark for the range of ECO friendly designer bags
ECO Bag for Trelise Cooper
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We designed the latest flagship store for Rip Curl Dubai – bringing the iconic surf brand to the UAE… not all advertising for us here…
Rip Curl in Dubai
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We invited Balinese Princess Lindy Klim (and queen to king of the pool Michael Klim) to model Feathers’ new summer range.
Princess Lindy…
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We avoided the predictable for daring Melbourne-based bridal company Bouquet & Garter. Featuring striking photography, we took inspiration from the bold creativity of the company’s make-up artistry and hair styling and created a couple of brides as dynamic as the salon’s work itself. Cheesy grins and tear tracks were out in favour of a good old bridezilla-off. Our models certainly rose to the occasion.
Bridezillas
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Following the recent release of the ‘Soundshield 4G’ Acoustic Safety user interface, Polaris Communications have released its companion, the ‘Soundshield Wireless’ Headset – the world’s first wireless headset with unsurpassed acoustic protection designed specifically for contact centres. Our latest campaign utilises 3D rendering and animation to showcase the benefits. Take a look here.
SoundShield Wireless
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Our latest campaign for Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre uses big fresh food imagery for ‘Fresh Food Week’.
Waurn Ponds gets Fresh
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With equal parts Golf and Holden, this is our new logo design for one of Australia’s biggest Golfing events, the Holden Scramble.
New Logo for the Scramble
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With their revolutionised approach to job-market navigation, ismycv.com.au needed a campaign that highlighted their differences to ensure they stand out from the rest. After the success of their last campaign, our latest TVC focuses on the employer, targeting them to introduce the idea of an employer-driven market, whilst still illustrating to job-seekers the benefit of standing out when your dream-job is searching for you.
Find Employees the easy way with ismycv.com.au
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We are excited to announce international engineering solutions giant Siemens our newest client. We are currently busy working with model makers, stylists, photographers and tech heads to put together something pretty special for their new campaign, so stay tuned. Siemens gives us “Answers that last,” so lets see what we can do with them…
News: New Client
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Its not all ad’s for us here at The Reactor. We were commissioned to design the graphics for the pilots uniforms for Air New Zealand. Incorporating flights paths, and technical drawings, our design reflects the technical aspect of airplanes and the people that fly them.
New Client: Air NZ
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It’s the little guys that count, which is why we have loved working with Waurn Ponds Shopping Centre on their latest Winter catalogue. Showcasing a wonderland of the latest winter fashion and design pieces, we embraced the chilly weather when featuring the seasonal must-haves for him, her and the kids by having our models don an array winter woolies!
Winter hits Waurn Ponds
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We had to get our Jamie Oliver on when creating the accompaniment to the current Don Fleishmaster campaign. Although coming up with a few meal ideas wasn’t all that difficult considering the obvious deliciousness of the hero ingredients. Featuring the classic rustic look and feel that is synonymous with the brand, the campaign included a TVC and online recipes that can be created at home. Stuck for lunch? Check out 101 ways with salami here.
Is Don, is good
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We connected Nike + Zelus stores directly with their loyal retail customers through the power of online media.
Nike + Zelus
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We love music and we love events so we love doing websites for companies that work on the best of both. Our latest work for Dainty Group is built with a SMART CMS system that allows the client to populate each event only once. It then automatically ticks over into past events which is pretty handy when you are the biggest events company in Australia and run over a 100 shows a year.
Metal to musicals with the Dainty group
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For our new look and feel website and creative for the daredevil freestyle motorcyclists, Crusty Demons, we had to get appropriately dirty. We got serious and fire-proof for the freestyle motocross pioneers, throwing skulls, flame throwers and nuts and bolts into the mix for crusty.com to match the international teams flammable style.
Getting Dirty
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Our latest promotional work for the AFI’s Festival of Film and AACTA Awards featured a windowpane of teasers to keep punters guessing.
AFI Awards
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In conjunction with photographer Robert Earp, our creative won an international photography award at the Hassleblad Masters for convincing a model that holding food in a garbage dump with rats was a good idea. One of the most prestigious awards in the industry, the Hassleblad Masters Award each year celebrating the best in both established and rising photographic talent.
The Reactor wins in Europe
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The Reactor welcomes Draggin Jeans, the market leader in Kevlar infused denim for the Motorcycle market. Going strong since 1997, Draggin Jeans is the only casual motorcycle brand in the World to have EVER passed the CE Tests for Abrasion, Burst and Tear resistance, so we’re pretty excited to be helping them design a new camo print for their up and coming range.
Draggin Jeans
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Because this is one stamp no one wants on their passport. Our latest ACPET campaign points the finger at the failing student VISA system.
Application denied
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Taking over an entire shopping precinct was no small task for our series of TVC’s for the Alliance of Australian Retailers.
AAR Behind the scenes
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During the 2010 election the Australian Alliance of Retailers put forward their case on the lack of evidence posted by the government on a range of policies including plain packaging for tobacco on TV, online and press. The NO Evidence TVC, created with Chocolate Studios, was part of the overall The Reactor “It won’t work” campaign featuring the words of retailers concerned about the impact of Government policies on their businesses.
AAR Evidence TVC
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Our latest website for Australian cycling team O2 Racing has fast become the team’s HQ. With an ethos to develop and encourage the mature and retired world class professional back to an elite level of racing, O2 Racing is quickly becoming recognised as a dominating force in Australian cycling. Featuring the latest team news, picture gallery, team profiles and more, the site has given the team their online presence. Take a look here.
The Reactor launches O2 Racings’ New Site
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Polaris’ new headset and touch-screen interface, the Soundsheild, is designed to provide Contact Centre Headset Users with the highest level of acoustic protection while maintaining excellent voice clarity and intelligibility. The Reactor produced packaging, user guide and online design as streamlined as the Soundshield itself, highlighting the accessibility of the interface through Sound, Sight and Touch.
Soundshield 4g… Built for the Senses
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When The Reactor were approached by the AFI to take care of the newly formed AFI AACTA Awards brand, we took it to market via our launch of the AFI AACTA Festival of Film. Opening night screenings in Melbourne & Sydney plus judges’ commentaries added to the excitement as films competed for Australia’s highest screen accolade, an AACTA Award.
NEWS: AFI Joins The Reactor
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Hole in 1 for the PGA… Gone are the days of puffy pants and plaid… Our new look PGA site keeps golfers up to date on the latest news, scores and more
PGA launches new website
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We continue to help Anglicare with ongoing donation campaigns, highlighting the affects of poverty in Australia.
Special Ingredient
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We love everything cycling at The Reactor so we are excited to announce Australian cycling team ‘O2 Racing’ our newest client. O2 Racing is an elite cycling team represented by roster of former European-based professionals. O2 have called on The Reactor to help them to build their brand and create a team presence in the world of cycling. We are busy designing their new website and creating a new look and feel, so stay tuned.
The Reactor welcomes O2 Racing
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We are proud to announce The Reactor’s latest client, Eastern Health Services. With over 50 facilities and four major hospitals, Eastern Health is one of Melbourne’s largest metropolitan public health services and are dedicated to providing a positive healthcare experiences for people and communities in the east through a range of medical services.
Eastern Health
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The Reactor’s ‘Immersion’ campaign for Caulfield Grammer and open day, featured some airborne students and a focus on the creative-learning, overseas travel and scholarship opportunities available to them. Set against the school colours, we featured actual students from years seven to nine and from the Centre for Early Learning Excellence.
Caulfield Grammar School
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We loved helping the Stroke Foundation to put together their latest charity event, Food For Thought. Culminating in an interstate culinary event hosted by seven of Melbourne’s elite chefs and featuring exceptional cuisine and stunning photography, our “Taste. Discover. Understand.” campaign challenged the public perception of stroke.
Stroke Foundation
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Fresh of the court, elite netballer Renae Hallinan from the Australian Diamonds and the Adelaide Thunderbirds, stars in our first TVC campaign from Health Insurance provider, Fit Health Insurance. A brand new type of health insurance that rewards you for being active, FIT boast a strong focus on sport and fitness and proudly support several local and national sporting organisations including the AFL and Netball Victoria.
FIT Health Insurance
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The Reactor are excited to announce the Australian Bullion Company our newest client. Australia’s oldest private precious metals company, the ABC boast over 40 years experience in the gold, silver and platinum bullion markets. We cant wait to work with the ABC on their brand overhaul for their online and in-store Victorian branch, the Melbourne Mint.
News: Welcome ABC
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Romantic music, sexual innuendo and some vaseline on the lense helped us connect cyclists with their perfect match during the Tour de’ France. “The Reactor thought of a creative concept that was unique and really delivered our story to the end consumer. Not only did they come up with a good idea, but they executed a plan that grew our business by 35 percent.” Jason Wyatt CEO BikeExchange.com.au
Playing Cupid for Bike Exchange
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Our latest radio campaign for ABC highlights the volatility of the current economic climate with Merry- Go-Rounds, Dodgem Cars and Roller Coasters…













