ABOUT US

Linnea Asplind Riley
Linnea does the artwork for the Linnea calendars, blank notes, holiday cards, and children's books. She majored in fine art at the University of Illinois, specializing in painting. After graduating she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Best known for her Poster Calendar, a decorative month-by-month portfolio of images, Linnea Riley's bold and graphic style utilizes rich, intense colors. She creates with a variety of media including cut and painted paper, colored pencils and pastels. The result is appealing, fun imagery that is rich with imagination, skill and color.

In addition to a poster calendar, Linnea creates an extensive line of greeting cards. She has illustrated three children's books, one of which won the Zena Sutherland Award for the best picture book of 1998. Her work has been featured on the covers of several Art Institute of Chicago catalogues. She and her family live in Seattle, Washington.

Johanna Riley Kriesel
Johanna designs all the Golden Age of Travel Hannah calendars, luggage tags, art prints, and golf products. She also creates the website and is in charge of all things technical. Her artistic background is a study in contrasts. After studying art history at the University of Oregon and in Italy, she worked with Bill Nye, The Science Guy, making zany props for his PBS science show. From there, she went on to design websites and graphics for various on-line companies before eventually landing at Microsoft.

Johanna has been designing for Linnea Design since 1997. One of her greatest abilities is to interpret the poster style of the 1930's. Johanna has recently completed design projects for Pottery Barn, The Discovery Channel Stores, Travel Smith Catalog and the World Wildlife Fund.

Linnea Design Player Roster
Linnea Design tries hard to be quick and responsive to your orders, shipping requests and suggestions. Customers think we're a bigger company than we really are! Over the past 15 years we have often chuckled when callers wanted to know how they would be able to reach the same order taker next time they called. With so few of us, it's not hard!

When you have an order or request, any of us would love to help. We all play many positions, especially during the holiday season.

Here's the roster:

Michael has his eye on the big picture and keeps us all on the same game plan.
Linnea designs the Linnea Design items and is the art director/corporate conscience.
Johanna designs all the Hannah Design products and creates the website.
Palma is in charge of incoming orders and tries to answer all your questions.
Christine backs us all up in all areas.
Boun & Steven pack up your shipments
Lucca, the Golden Retriever,is the morale officer and snack manger.