About

Textile & Fashion Designer

Artistic Prize

2023 | AWAF - Australian Wearable Art Festival

Finalist and the winner - Runner Up in Trashion category

Presented project: Citric Chic (photo 3/11)

2022 | Paper on Skin -

Finalist and Highly Commended a biennial wearable paper art competition held on the North-West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.

Presented project:
Wearable Sheets of Paper

2020 | RO Plastic Prize - Finalist and Special Mention 7 International Competition RO Guiltless Plastic 2020 - category Innovative Textiles organized by Rossana Orlandi during Milano Design City

2019 | A'Design Award&Competition Italy

with Lamella Textile - Silver Winner in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category

2017 | Honorary badge Distinguished for Polish Culture 2017

2017 | Winner program scholarship holder, Polish Culture around the World, IAM Warsaw

2016 | Nomination for the Polish Prime Minister’s Award in the category the best Doctoral thesis -Deconstructure.

2022 | Conversation - A great journey across many borders, languages and cultures, Stary Browar, Poznan

2022 | Exhibition of the fianlists of Paper on Skin, Paranaple Arts Centre, Devonport, Tasmania

2020 | Exhibition of the fianlists RO Plastic Prize 2020, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano, Italy

2019 | A' Design Award Exhibition, MOOD The Museum of Outstanding Design, Como, Italy

2019 | II Textile Art Biennial, Poznan, Poland

2017 | AT ART Exhibition, CASO, Osaka, Japan

2017 | The 6th Art Festival in Kiyomizu-kogen, Nagano, Japan

2017 | VII Bienal International De Arte Textil Contemporaneo and Balconadas Show, Montevideo, Uruguay

2017 | Balconadas Show, Montevideo, Uruguay

2017 | I Textile Art Biennial, Poznan, Poland

2016 | La Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles en Outaouais Canada

2016 | Design Gallery, Poznan, Poland

Exhibitions

My name is Ela Cios-Jonas and I'm a textile and fashion designer. I'm a founder of brand CIOSDESIGN. Searching balance between art and design related to the research for new areas of material exploration. Specialized in experiments and innovations with craft and unique techniques as well digital and new technologies in the fabric design. I'm creating textiles dedicated for fashion sectors, interior design fields and many more. An important achievement in my design is "process of study material combinations". A lot of handmade fabrics is done for the final satisfactory textiles and patterns. Development of uniquness present a products based on technological experiments and sustainable design. Unconventional material combination showing unlimited possibilities of surprising patterns and colorful compositions. Privatly I'm a happy wife and mother of a three little girls which inspire me to search new fields for my creativity. Working and living in Poland and Germany.

Education

2015 | PhD in design.

Deconstructure. Redefinition of fashion in the context of innovative design solutions

2008-2010 | MA

Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland and

RESAD Madrid, Spain

2005-2008 | BA

Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland

Employment

since 2011 | University of Arts in Poznan, Poland | Faculty of Interior and Stage Design/Department of Fashion Design | Assistent in Unique Fashion Design Studio

https://uap.edu.pl/uczelnia/kadra/cios-elzbieta/

since 2010 | Atofri Theater, Poland - collaboration