Not sure if it is a designer breed or not. The English wikipedia site has very little:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_(dog)
There is a little bit more here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/en...t=AbstractPlus
and the article was written by researchers at the College of Veterinary Science in Hannover.
And the folks who developed the breed have trademarked the name, which I find very strange.
I was hoping that maybe some of our friends from across the pond might have some first-hand knowledge.