ELY/26 · Studio

One studio.
Three disciplines.

Digital, image-making and identity, held by one creative direction instead of handed between teams.

Montréal / Remote

01Practice

Practice

The pictures and the thing they live in get made in the same room here, because work that looks right and behaves wrong is not finished.

The usual arrangement hands a client a direction and leaves the building of it to somebody else. The gap between those two people is where the work tends to die: the direction gets flattened into a template, the details get decided on the fly, and what ships bears a family resemblance to what was designed.

Elya closes that gap by holding both ends. The same hands that set the direction write the code that renders it. That is not a technical boast, it is the reason the details survive contact with production.

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02Founder

Founder

Selyane

Digital / Image-making / Identity

Elya is an independent creative studio based in Montréal / Remote, built and run by Selyane (@firstclassrelo). Every project on this site was made by the same person who answers your email.

03Capabilities

Capabilities

  • Creative direction
  • Web design and development
  • Interactive and generative work
  • Commercial photography
  • Film and motion
  • Post-production
  • Music production
  • Mixing and mastering
04Philosophy

Philosophy

The photographs, the identity and the site operate as one system, not three separate hires.

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