Elston Alphas is a creative studio that focuses on collaboration among designers, makers, and researchers.
Founding members consist of creatives from varied backgrounds and skill sets, all of which come together in each project to offer each specialised perspective and expertise.
Completed projects include exhibition design for museums and galleries, product design, and publications as well as personally led projects of interest.
We love to get involved in projects at any stage of their process, from consulting, research and development, design, sample making, or testing an idea, all the way to supervising the execution and presentation.
Lara is a designer and illustrator with a degree in Product Design from Central Saint Martins, London. Her primary areas of interest are museum and exhibition design as well as illustration and furniture design.
For the past 12 years, she has been extensively involved in working with museums, focusing on exhibition design for their collections in both temporary and permanent exhibitions.
She is inspired by the relationship between audience and public space, and how design can contribute to accessibility within art and culture. Using an ethnographic approach to her work, Lara focuses on introducing audiences to historical and cultural narratives through utilizing diverse collaborations between designers, makers, and researchers.
Clio has worked as a designer, maker, and supervisor in London Theatres for ten years. She has worked in feature films as a props maker and fabricator.
In addition to this, she has acted as visiting tutor at Goldsmiths University.
Since permanently relocating to Cyprus Clio has been involved in designing exhibitions with Elston Alphas.
Clio most enjoys the research and development stage of the creative process as well as sample making, and 3D model making.
She holds an (MA) in Costume Design for Performance at LCF and a (BA) in Jewellery Design at Central Saint Martins.
Danae is a Social Anthropologist whose research has primarily focused on heritage formation in post-colonial Cyprus.
Having obtained an MA in Visual Anthropology in 2018, her most recent work explores the expression of ethnography, film, and ethical practice.
She has conducted fieldwork and co-authored a paper on the role of the Maronite community in the Cyprus issue and has more recently, worked alongside archeologists in the rural village of Nikitari focusing on heritage formation and the creation of community archives.