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A communication
practice that thinks
before it makes.

ICE is a strategic communication consultancy. We work upstream, defining what a brand should mean before deciding what it should look like. For the organisations that want their brand to hold up long after launch campaign is over.

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Building Brands.
Shaping Minds.
Connecting Cultures.
For the organisations that think beyond the local. Cultural and creative industries. NGOs
and multilateral organisations. Pan-African brands in growth
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A Campaign is Not A Brand
A Logo Is Not A Strategy

A feed full of posts is not a story. We work the other way around. We start with the question most teams skip: what is this brand for, and to whom? Everything that follows, the platform, the identity, the campaign — answers that question, or it does not exist. We work in three movements: understand, decide, and embody. Most engagements run all three.

How We Work

Understand

Analyse before acting. Diagnostics, audits, audience and cultural insights. Before we recommend anything, we read the brand, the audience, and the gap between them.

Decide

Translate insight into direction. Communication strategy, narrative architecture, institutional posture. We turn what we have read into a set of strategic choices the organisation can defend — internally first, externally next.

Embody

Give the strategy a transmissible form. Branding and identity, training and advisory. We build the verbal and visual platform, and we make sure the team can carry it once we have left the room.

Recent Point of View

Readings, decodings, and the occasional argument. A long essay every month— about what is shifting in brands, cultures, and the stories we tell with them. Read the Point of View →

Global . African. Cultural

Who We Work With

Cultural and creative industries. Non-governmental and multilateral organisations. Pan-African brands in growth.
The organisations we work with have one thing in common: they think beyond the local, and
they expect their brand to match.

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Building brands. Shaping minds. Connecting cultures.