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![Decorex Joburg, 100% Design and Future Talks are coming to Joburg](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CEC-Featured-Image-1080x675.jpg)
Decorex Joburg, 100% Design and Future Talks are coming to Joburg
August is swiftly approaching, bringing with it Decorex Cape Town’s counterpart, Decorex Joburg. Taking place at the...
![The cult of Caramel Palace: an irreverent art and design studio with radical intuition](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CP_CEC-Featured-Image-1080x675.jpg)
The cult of Caramel Palace: an irreverent art and design studio with radical intuition
Caramel Palace is… irreverent, intuitive, a subculture, a cult, a movement. Anyone who enters the Caramel...
![Treading The Thin Line Between Art & Commerce: The Creative Evolution of ZuluMecca](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ZuluMecca_CEC-Featured-Image-1080x675.jpg)
Treading The Thin Line Between Art & Commerce: The Creative Evolution of ZuluMecca
The internet has this intrinsic way of warping reality. By the time we have grandchildren, X (formerly Twitter) will...
![‘Time Goes Bye Bye’: An experiential time-based exploration of the way we view art](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Time-Goes-Bye-CEC-Featured-Image-1080x675.jpg)
‘Time Goes Bye Bye’: An experiential time-based exploration of the way we view art
“Going to art galleries these days is equivalent to the endless social media scroll”, Gaelen Pinnock shared with Sune...
![The Promise Of Streetwear with S.W.A.N.K Founder Lindelani Nedoboni](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Swank_CEC-Featured-Image-1080x675.jpg)
The Promise Of Streetwear with S.W.A.N.K Founder Lindelani Nedoboni
2013 was a turning point for streetwear. Previously, the movement was confined to subcultural corners – most notably,...
![The Importance of Intuition and Synergy as told by Set Designer and Conceptual Stylist, Francois Ferreira](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Francois_CEC-Featured-Image-1080x675.jpg)
The Importance of Intuition and Synergy as told by Set Designer and Conceptual Stylist, Francois Ferreira
I count every conversation that I have with creatives and artists as a deep honour. Perhaps because of my bias,...
Navigating Reality
![Unpacking the loneliness epidemic – Does being alone mean that you’re lonely?](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Unpacking-the-loneliness-epidemic-Does-being-alone-mean-that-youre-lonely-CEC-Feature-Image_01-1080x675.jpg)
Unpacking the loneliness epidemic – Does being alone mean that you’re lonely?
Over the years, I've found that one of life's great displeasures is that whenever you are single, it feels like people...
![Navigating your 9 to 5 vs. your 5 to 9](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Navigating-your-9-to-5-vs.-your-5-to-9-CEC-Feature-Image-1080x675.jpg)
Navigating your 9 to 5 vs. your 5 to 9
Let me set the scene. You clocked off from your job in a highrise building situated in Cape Town CBD, which you...
![Everyone Experiences Imposter Syndrome – Here Are Some Tools to Overcome it](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Everyone-Experiences-Imposter-Syndrome-Here-Are-Some-Tools-to-Overcome-it-CEC-Featured-Image_01-1080x675.jpg)
Everyone Experiences Imposter Syndrome – Here Are Some Tools to Overcome it
I think it’s only fair that I preface this article with an admission, of sorts. Beyond the mod hair, crop tops,...
Music News
![Japanese producer Yuu Udagawa has released “Ride It” (JKriv Remix)](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/July-CEC-Featured-Image-2-1080x675.jpg)
Japanese producer Yuu Udagawa has released “Ride It” (JKriv Remix)
Japanese producer Yuu Udagawa is back with some jazzy deep house, including remixes by the maestros Fred Everything...
![Niwin releases three-track house EP “Shorty”](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/July-CEC-Featured-Image3-1080x675.jpg)
Niwin releases three-track house EP “Shorty”
Niwin, hailing from Oslo, Norway, brings a refreshing and refined touch to the European deep-house scene. His music...
![Fred Everything & Robert Owens release ‘Never’ (Osunlade & Waajeed remixes)](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/July-CEC-Featured-Image2-2-1080x675.jpg)
Fred Everything & Robert Owens release ‘Never’ (Osunlade & Waajeed remixes)
Following the success of Fred Everything's album release 'Love, Care, Kindness & Hope', they bring us new versions...
![Treading The Thin Line Between Art & Commerce: The Creative Evolution of ZuluMecca](https://ceconline.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ZuluMecca_CEC-Featured-Image-1080x675.jpg)
Treading The Thin Line Between Art & Commerce: The Creative Evolution of ZuluMecca
The internet has this intrinsic way of warping reality. By the time we have grandchildren, X (formerly Twitter) will...
ABOUT US
An independent media space & integrated agency capturing the zeitgeist of South Africa’s creative arts community. Covering news, music, fashion, art, culture and creativity.
We are committed to analysing, curating, and proliferating stories of youth culture & creativity; this is essential in harnessing the explosive potential of South African brands, creatives and wayshowers.
We focus on innovation and selling newness through our curatorial lens of popular culture and storytelling. We believe that independent media is critical for containing and creating impactful content as it happens.
With the integration of our media publication and digital agency, we offer a uniquely positioned set of skills and services that effectively capture the markets’ shifting landscape and allow us to amplify campaigns, editorials and co-branded content through our media eco-system. Contact us for media submissions, advertising and sponsored article content and head to our agency page to find out more about our services.
OUR MANIFESTO
The world exists in a constant state of flow. A sunset gust in Acapulco becomes a summer tide in Tahiti.
Information flies across the world untethered, but it can be directed, curated and injected with positive energy. Everything is connected, yet sometimes we can only see that looking backwards towards the past.
What if we could connect things yet to come through vision and foresight?
Through understanding the shifts that created the challenges and recognising the best way to change them requires our technique, intuition and vast experience.
We exist for our community, businesses and brands to thrive by always connecting everything forwards; into the future and beyond.
CEC – a producer, an orchestrator and a multiplier: Bringing value to your brands, business and our community where it matters most…
By Connecting Everything Clearly.
We are culture. We are Connect Everything Collective.