Alix Stria is an interdisciplinary designer – focused on book making and digital & printed matter – based in Amsterdam. Aside frequent collaborations with Anna Bierler as babypls, Alix shares Studio SMS, a collective design practice, with Katharina Shafiei-Nasab.

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Selected Clients / Commissioners / Collaborators

A Magazine
Annette Krauss
Auftakt Festival
Bea Schlingelhoff
Büro Daniela Burger
Daniel C. Müller
Eva Birkenstock
Fanny Hauser
Gerbert Stiftung für Kultur
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Harun Farocki Institut
If I Can’t Dance
Institute of Network Cultures
Liza Prins
Löwenbräukunst
Mariana Fernandez Mora
Melkweg Expo
Netzforma*
PW Magazine
Real Review Magazine
Roman Gysin
Sandberg Institute
Situation Magazine
Société des arts Genève
Städel Schule Frankfurt
Unguarded
Vika Kirchenbauer
Viktor Neumann
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

type in use: Tempos Mono by Samara Keller
website developed with coding support by Katharina Nejdl and built with Kirby CMS

exhibitions

2023 »»» Sweaty Dwellings @ MK&G & Slot » Hamburg
2023 »»» best student books selection 2022 @ it’s a book » Leipzig
2022 »»» by design @ Kunstkapel » Amsterdam
2022 »»» 100 Beste Plakate 21 » various locations
2021 »»» practice pending @ NDSM FUSE » Amsterdam
2021 »»» comfort + vision » The One Minutes » various locations
2019 »»» Wenn KI, dann feministisch @ Medienhaus Berlin

education

2020–2022 »»» MFA Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam (Design Department)
2018–2019 »»» Exchange: Zurich University of Arts (Visual Communication)
2015–2020 »»» BA University of Arts Berlin (Visual Communication / New Media)

workshops/talks

2023 »»» The Invisible Operators of Language » collective reading » Hallo Radio & Slot Hamburg » with Lina von Jaruntowski & Luka Zimmer
2023 »»» Cheese of Truth » writing workshop » MK&G Hamburg » with Sweaty Dwellings
2023 »»» Terms & Conditions workshop by Studio SMS » OT301 Amsterdam » with Katharina Shafiei-Nasab
2022 »»» [...] Unmoored and Adrift and Alive » instant publication » If I can’t dance Amsterdam
2022 »»» Becoming a Body of Text » collective reading & writing workshops » Kunstkapel Amsterdam
2022 »»» Studio SMS × FUBU » Düker Space Zürich » with Katharina Shafiei-Nasab
2021 »»» Slow Dive » workshop on silence and sound » NDSM FUSE Amsterdam » with Jonathan Castro, Tharim Cornelisse, Timur Tokdemir & Yannesh Meijman
2021 »»» Writing Rituals » workshop & radio show » Rietveld Pavilion » with Anna Bierler
2021 »»» Typedesign Workshop » Sandberg Design Department » with Jan Egbers
2018 »»» Das Designstudium entmystifizieren. Der UdK basics.blog » talk @ Typo Berlin @ HKW » with Judith Holly

published in

2023 »»» Slanted Magazine #42 Books
2022 »»» posse mag #01 » Patterns of Pleasure
2022 »»» 100 Best Posters 2021 Publication
2022 »»» Spreadmag issue 05 » Movement
2022 »»» Issue #7 / Sandberg Design Department
2021 »»» SOFT quarterly No. 5
2020 »»» Further Reading Print No.2 » Boundaries