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Alix Chauvet is a Swiss-French graphic designer and poet based in Amsterdam. She received her BA in graphic design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 2020, and has since been working independently and in collaboration with contemporary artists. Investigating the relationship between language and body, her hybrid practice covers a wide range of visual and linguistic experiments—from artist’s book design to experimental translation. Her method is rooted in slowing down the creative process through the use of analogue and unprofitable techniques such as cut-outs, letterpress, linocut, handwriting and painting. Her poetic approach follows the same logic, prioritising English over her mother tongue as a way to relate to language with both critical detachment and a degree of identification.
Alix Chauvet
Graphic Design, Poetry & Illustration
Amsterdam, NL
contact@alixchauvet.com
@alix.chauvet
Artist's books, Poster design, Illustrations.
2025:
Stichting Perdu, Poster design
2021-2023:
Mother's Milk, Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Artist's book
2022:
Novelle, Le Grand Clos NNN
2021:
De Gids, Kroniek & Kritiek
Studio Billie van Katwijk / Ventri
2019–2020:
Cultural Matter: JODI
Novelle, Le Grand Clos, Fusion
2017–2020:
Novelle, Le Grand Clos, Iconique
POSTERS AND ONLINE VISUALS
Amsterdam, since 2025
POSTERS AND ONLINE VISUALS
Amsterdam, since 2025
Perdu is a specialised poetry bookshop, cultural stage, and publishing house based in Amsterdam since 1984. Dedicated to experiments at the intersection of literature, performance, and other art forms.
I've been Perdu's in-house graphic designer since 2025.
06.06. Bad $ubject — Alara Adilow, hannah baer, Rosie Stockton, With an introduction by Marco Borkent. Hosted by Marija Cetinić.
16.05. Majestic Casual — Profumo Affair: Billy Morgan meets Sands Murray (Educational Anti-Entertainment), hosted by Marija Cetinić and Lorenzo Garcia Andrade
07.05, 21.05. & 04.06, 18.06 & 02.07. Transatlantic Voices: On feminist Latin American Poetry, facilitated by Jimena Casas, visuals by Azul de Monte
04.04. Gewaande Paradijzen, over de Nalatenschap van Kees Ouwens, hosted by Lars Meijer and Parette Maker
28.03. Nothing will remain other than the thorn lodged in the throat of this world, hosted by Marija Cetinić and Lorenzo Garcia Andrade
07.03. Nat Raha & Lisa Jay Jeschke, hosted by Oliver Taylor
14.02. Everywhere, nowhere but rooted, hosted by JAJAJANEENEENEE radio and voice as landscapes
visuals for a podcast
Amsterdam, 2025
visuals for a podcast
Amsterdam, 2025
Visuals for a Podcast by Zoë Dankert
Fourteen emerging artists are about to make the leap from art school to the professional world. During this intense period full of conflicting emotions, they pause for a moment. How do they view art education, the art world and their own work? This new generation of artists will determine the art of the future. Who are they? What will they take with them into the future and what will they leave behind? For everyone who knows the art academy well and for everyone who has never set foot inside.
Artist book, 348 pages, 15.5 x 24 cm, 400 copies. Hardcover thread sewn binding, offset duotone
Amsterdam, 2023
Artist book, 348 pages, 15.5 x 24 cm, 400 copies. Hardcover thread sewn binding, offset duotone
Amsterdam, 2023
Introduction text by Marta Pagliuca Pellacani
Published by Jap Sam books
Printed at Robstolk Amsterdam
Photos: the book photographer
Mother’s Milk (re)constructs the story of Ilse, the author’s grandmother. Alienated in the psychiatric hospital of La Timone, in Marseille, Ilse resided there from 1952 until her death in 1983. Bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.
An undertow of embodied memory meets the flow of institutional remembrance, drawing parallels between the discarded material of archives and the necessary mechanisms of physiological forgetting. Mother’s Milk offers an intimate journey into madness, intergenerational trauma transmission and the role of artistic research in imagining a possibility of healing.
Read here about Mother's Milk in Metropolis M magazine, a conversation with Liza Prins.
Illustration, 10 x 10 cm
Amsterdam, 2021
Illustration, 10 x 10 cm
Amsterdam, 2021
Illustration representing two "K"s for the column Kroniek & Kritiek, from the literary magazine De Gids.
publication
Amsterdam, 2023
publication
Amsterdam, 2023
Publication design for Perdu Schrijfworkshop, 2022-23, Stichting Perdu, Amsterdam.
The publication brings together selected short stories, essays and poems from two groups that followed two parallel writing workshops. It gathers two individually designed booklets—TRILLEN & VERDRAGINGEN—in a common cover. The brown part has been designed by Hilde Meeus (Meeus Ontwerpt), while I designed the blue part.
Texts: Alix Chauvet, Zoë Dankert, Loes de Groen, Ivana Kalaš, Sascha Luinenburg, Nima Madjzubi, Maurits Vettewinkel
Begeleiding: Jeroen van Rooij
100 copies, A5, printed in riso at Stichting Kaboem, 2023, Amsterdam.
Available at Perdu bookshop.
20 pages, 40 x 18 cm, edition of 25. Riso-printed with 3 colors, spiral-bound
Amsterdam, 2023
20 pages, 40 x 18 cm, edition of 25. Riso-printed with 3 colors, spiral-bound
Amsterdam, 2023
Planktos Rising is a riso-printed children book recounting the journey of a plankton named Planktos who meets many inhabitants of the North Sea. Through their conversations, he learns about a mythical material of great influence on their environment: oil. Using colorful and tactile imagery, the book introduces children to the strange relationships between mythology and fossil fuel, making up the basis for universal thinking that is needed to discuss the topic of the climate crisis.
The design is a translation of scenes from the tapestry Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne: Oil & Myth (2022) by Miriam Sentler.
Planktos Rising was launched at Bergen Art Book Fair (April 14-16, 2023, NO).
Text & concept: Miriam Sentler (1994, DE/NL).
Design & illustration: Alix Chauvet (1995, CH/FR).
With the support of Stimuleringsfonds (creative industries fund NL).
Poster, 59.4 x 84 cm and social media banner
Amsterdam, 2019
Poster, 59.4 x 84 cm and social media banner
Amsterdam, 2019
A poster and social media banners for LIMA (LIving Media Arts, Amsterdam), an important platform for the preservation, research and distribution of media arts. The poster was designed for the event "Cultural Matter: JODI", a conference where the work of the net art duo JODI was discussed in their presence.
Branding, logo and packaging
Amsterdam, 2021
Branding, logo and packaging
Amsterdam, 2021
Two complementary logos made for designer Billie van Katwijk, who specialises in ceramics and cow's stomach leather. The grey and the oval represent metamorphosis and cyclic transformation.
BVK: www.billievankatwijk.com
Ventri: www.ventrileather.com
Illustrations for a series of wine labels, 14 x 6 cm
Satigny, CH, 2017 – 2022
Illustrations for a series of wine labels, 14 x 6 cm
Satigny, CH, 2017 – 2022
A series of hand-drawn animals colored with gouache for the wine labels of a Swiss vineyard.
Novelle: https://novelle.wine
Artist's Books, Poetry, Illustrations, Posters
2025:
Cyclamen, poetry collection, published by Tenement Press, UK
2023-2024:
Fishes & Birds, linocuts
2022:
Tedious Outside
2020:
Eros until sore
The physicality of written language
POETRY COLLECTION
Amsterdam, 2025
POETRY COLLECTION
Amsterdam, 2025
A suite of unfaithful translations / transversions of works drawn from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil : a bunch of flowers in decay, pressed and frayed, ‘a flock of pockmarked words.’
More info & order:
https://tenementpress.com/Alix-Chauvet
Book, unique copy, 29 x 29 cm
Amsterdam, 2019
Book, unique copy, 29 x 29 cm
Amsterdam, 2019
Reedition of La guerre au Luxembourg (1916), the first poem that Blaise Cendrars wrote after his right arm amputation at fight. It depicts children playing war in the “Jardin du Luxembourg”.
I copy Cendrars’ poem with my left hand. My clumsy writing holds the ambiguity on which the text is built: a hilly roughness and a childlike allure. The process feels playful and painful all at once. It gives me more time to feel the load of each word, as they unravel at a slower pace. The basics of communication seem reassessed, estranged. I become aware that being hindered by your body implies a reorganization of the self.
Book, 12 x 17 cm, 700 copies, offset-printed
Amsterdam, 2020
Book, 12 x 17 cm, 700 copies, offset-printed
Amsterdam, 2020
TAkEAwAY is a book written, edited and published by the Rietveld Academie’s graphic design department during the first national lockdown.
In my 32 p. contribution, eros until sore, I approach writing as an erotic act, using the letters of eros as a starting point. I reshuffle, add and subtract letters from this word in all sorts of combinations in the hope of exhausting its meaning, or of generating some new. Following my desire to capture what resists to language, I explore the tensions between speech and the body in an organic collection of diary entries, scores, mythologic references, poetry, and linocut experiments.
Poster
Amsterdam, 2022
Poster
Amsterdam, 2022
A poster composed around two anagrams, Tedious and Outside.
Printed and design by myself :), with the help of Q Hisashi Shibata.
Screen-print, 4 layers, 70 x 100 cm, edition of 25.
Get in touch if you would like to get a copy!
Lino prints
Amsterdam, 2023 – 2024
Lino prints
Amsterdam, 2023 – 2024
Series of linocuts. Postcard format (A6)
Limited edition. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing some.
Book, edition of 12, 12.5 x 19 cm
Amsterdam, 2020
Book, edition of 12, 12.5 x 19 cm
Amsterdam, 2020
My essay is a quest for physical traces within written language. This search continuously draws my focus to my own body as I write, so that at times I end up overwhelmed by swarms of impressions that both stifle and enrich my writing process. The trying introspection clears up the question underlying my prime interest: I am indirectly asking if the endeavour of writing liberates or hinders the body.
“Unlike silence, this deadly place in which women have learnt to lock themselves, breath bears life in a motherly way.” (p. 37)
Typeface
Amsterdam, 2018
Typeface
Amsterdam, 2018
Cracks found in Amsterdam’s walls and turned into a font.
"I notice small cracks in the walls of the stairwell of my flat. I take a closer look and realize that some forms strangely evoke letter shapes. I can see an O, an I, an X… All these marks, born from accidents, can be read as typographic signs. My mind starts to instill meaning in these meaningless defects. Language subjugates and distorts my gaze. Walls become the epicenter of communication."
