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Alissia Melka-Teichroew, founder and creative director of BY:AMT Inc, formerly known as Alissia MT Design, is a New World-Old World mash-up. The daughter of a French mother and U.S.father, she was born and raised in the Netherlands. She is a graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and holds a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (USA). After stints in Paris, San Francisco, and Boston, she finally alighted in New York, her true home. She now lives and works in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.


ALISSIA Design came into being soon after Alissia’s 2000 graduation from The Design Academy. The US version of ALISSIA Desgin, Alissia MT Design was launched in 2005 (re-named BY:AMT). While developing her own original projects, she also served a seven-month design residency at the design consultancy IDEO and also worked on staff at Puma International. In 2006, she decided to concentrate on BY: AMT full time.