I have an endless passion for shaping brand experiences from macro to micro, to amplify the impact of creativity, inspire beauty, and collaboration for the future of our planet.
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I have an endless passion for shaping brand experiences from macro to micro, to amplify the impact of creativity, inspire beauty, and collaboration for the future of our planet. 〰️
byAMT stands for by Alissia Melka-Teichroew (melka-tykro)
I'm a Creative Director, brand designer, and the person companies call when they need to build something properly — or rebuild it from the inside out.
My work spans brand strategy and identity, product and spatial design, digital experience, and creative direction. That breadth isn't accidental. Over the years, I've moved between disciplines because the best brand work requires it: a visual system only holds up if the strategy behind it is solid; a product only works if it connects to a larger brand world.
I've led brand identity in-house — as Global Visual Design Lead and Creative Director at Electrolux Group, where I led the brand DNA refresh for Electrolux and AEG and the group's multi-brand One App; and as Head of Brand and Creative Director at Lynk & Co, where I worked across retail, e-commerce, app, and campaigns.
Through byAMT, I've worked as a creative consultant since 2005 — partnering with organisations including Herman Miller, Virgin Voyages, As I Am Haircare, Batiste Dry Shampoo, Adidas, and Canyon Bicycles, across brand, product, and spatial work. Alongside the consultancy, I ran byAMT as a product design studio and a brand for nearly two decades: designing furniture, fashion accessories and home objects that were distributed globally, including in stores like MoMA Store, Cooper-Hewitt, Selfridges and Victoria & Albert Museum — among the first 1,000 sellers on Shopify.
Earlier in my career I was a Product and Concept Designer at IDEO in Palo Alto, and a CMF Designer at PUMA. I've taught and guest lectured at institutes like Cranbrook, RISD, Parsons, Pratt, and SAIC.
I'm also a member of Group of Humans — a global creative collective of exceptional humans, united by a shared commitment to finding the right answer, not the safe one. And I serve as a juror for the iF Design Awards.
Dutch-French-American, raised in the Netherlands, educated at Design Academy Eindhoven (BFA) and Rhode Island School of Design (MID). I've lived and worked in Amsterdam, Paris, Boston, San Francisco, and New York.
Services in Detail
I work across the full arc of brand and design — from defining what a brand stands for to the details of how it shows up. I come in at the strategy stage, the design stage, or anywhere in between. Often both.
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The foundation everything else is built on.
Research & Insights — Mapping the landscape: industry, audience, and competition to understand where a brand sits and where it can go.
Purpose, Mission & Values — Defining a brand's core: its DNA, guiding principles, and the impact it wants to have.
Identity Development — Designing a visual, verbal, and physical brand identity that is future-proof, distinct, and built as a coherent system — not a collection of assets.
Brand Architecture — Structuring how a brand's products, services, or sub-brands relate to each other.
Brand Narrative — Writing the story that holds everything together and gives the brand something real to say.
Guidelines & Brand Portal — Usable guidelines and a brand portal that functions as a living source of truth, not a document that sits in a drawer.
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Hands-on work across the full spectrum — I design things, I don't just direct them.
Creative Direction — Directing campaigns, photography, film, animation, and illustration across every channel.
Digital Design — Brand identity brought to life through websites, e-commerce, mobile apps, and digital interfaces.
Spatial & Brand Environments — Retail spaces, hospitality environments, and offices that express a brand through space, not just surface.
Packaging & Print — Physical touchpoints that let people engage with a brand in their hands.
Product Design & CMF — Products and collections designed from concept through production, including colour, materials, and finishes.
Trend Research & Curation — Emerging market and material trends translated into design direction; collections and content curated to make complex narratives accessible.
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For when a project is stuck on thinking, not execution. I come in to ask the uncomfortable questions, challenge what's been assumed, and help find the direction that wasn't visible from inside.
Research & Reframing — Getting to the bottom of what the real brief actually is.
Concept Design — Developing and experimenting with creative ideas to establish new directions.
Innovation Direction — Identifying the next phase of development for products, collections, spaces, or brands.
Strategic Provocation — Challenging convention and introducing perspectives from outside the category.
Working Sessions with In-house Teams — Structured sessions to unlock thinking and get work moving.
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For brands that need a creative partner who can hold the whole picture — across strategy, identity, product, space, digital, and campaign — and make sure the brand that was defined is the one that actually gets built.
Electrolux
Canyon Bicycles
Lynk & Co
AEG
Selina Hotel
As I Am Haircare
Herman Miller
Decathlon
Batiste
Überliss
eBay
Cooper Hewitt
Selected Clients & Collaborations
Frontify
Virgin Voyages
Areaware
Functionals
The Invisible Party
Adidas
BBB Cycling
Design Academy Eindhoven
Kikkerland Design
See You Tomorrow
MoMA Store
iF Design Awards