Eli(sabeth) Teje Duis

elisabeth.teje.duis@gmail.com
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Hey there!

I’m Eli, a (graphic) designer in the middle of figuring things out – curious, open, and questioning. Since moving to the Netherlands, I’ve started to see art and design differently. I’m relearning my ways of thinking, exploring new paths, and letting myself ask questions without rushing to find the answers. I like to have fun with form, function and words.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2023—2027Bachelor of Arts
Design Academy Eindhoven
Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2022—2023Scandinavian Studies
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany

2018–2021Training as a state-certified graphic designer
Gertrud-Luckner-Gewerbeschule in Freiburg, Germany

2016–2018Training as a state-certified photo and media technical assistant
Gertrud-Luckner-Gewerbeschule in Freiburg, Germany

2008 — 2016General qualification for university entrance
Kolleg St. Sebastian in Stegen, Germany

Employment

since 2023 Freelance
Graphic Designer and Photographer

January — September 2023Intern Creative Designer
YES! Creative Digital Marketing in Chur, Switzerland

February — April 2022Graphic Designer
Morgen Schwarzwald Designstudio in Freiburg, Germany

November 2020Intern Graphic Designer
Morgen Schwarzwald Designstudio in Freiburg, Germany

Exhibitions

Dutch Design Week 2025 Back to the Flax
Kazerne Eindhoven

Dutch Design Week 2024Back to the Flax
Kazerne Eindhoven

Dutch Design Week 2024One Sheet Lamp
Glassroom Heuvel Gallery

Skills

InDesign

Lightroom

Illustrator

Photoshop

After Effects

Premiere Pro

Lightroom

Petting Dogs

Making Coffee

Projects

Back to the Flax

Photography & Visual Identity
since 2024

Collective:
Corentin Berthomé
Elisabeth Teje Duis
Fabio Lucietto
Filip Kubiny
Guilain Delanoue
Karin Borovcová
Linde van Vlijmen
Lucas van Vuuren
Mika Fuchs
Monique Simon
Primo Arets

Back to the Flax is a design collective part of Kazerne Young. On 1.000 m² of land in Gijzenrooi, the group cultivated, harvested, and processed flax by hand - exploring both traditional and experimental methods. Through workshops and active participation, the collective brings people closer to local agriculture and craft.

Friction Frames

Semester Publication
June 2025

Layout:
Anoushka Tavares Reed
Elisabeth Teje Duis
Nici Nielsen

This publication explores friction not just as a theme, but as a way of working. Created by second-year Design Students these visual essays reflect messy processes, tensions, and experiments. It’s less about polished outcomes and more about navigating design through resistance, misalignment, and collective making.

To be One.

Videoinstallation
June 2025

First a means to an end. A tool, a means of transport. Conquered, exploited, mistreated, respected and loved. Dependent, independent.
This project critically examines the role of horses in competitive sport and human culture. Composed entirely of found footage and set to two contrasting songs: HorsegiirL’s My Barn, My Rules and Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road; the video juxtaposes disturbing, absurd and emotionally charged scenes to expose systems of control, performance, and commodification.

Modified Chair
June 2025

Result of the practice-led research.

On the Thoughts of Decay

Spatial Publication
June 2025

Exploring decay as a transitional space, not in a negative way, but as something soft, necessary, and sometimes even beautiful. Thoughts, feelings, and emotional states can show up suddenly, leave slowly, or sometimes never even finish. Writing as a way of reflecting and releasing. The staircase as an in-between space. A space of passing through.

Using a thermal receipt printer, the installation materializes mental fragments; fleeting impressions, emotions, or sensory traces. Allowing them to fade, both physically and emotionally.

If you believe – you belong.

Zine & Workshop Proposal
May 2025

Exploring the topics of care, vulnerability, and belonging. Through a short, personal narrative, the zine sinks in the quiet moments in which care is both felt and absent. Within institutions, relationships and after all in oneself.

Silent Dinner

Installation
June 2024

Shared meals as moments of connection and silence. The tension between togetherness and emotional distance. A poem printed on the tablecloth gives form to unspoken thoughts as silent way to communicate feelings that are hard to say out loud.