ABOUT US

Linnea Asplind Riley
Linnea designed the Linnea Calendar for years and does the artwork for blank notes, holiday cards, children's books and other on-going products. She majored in fine art at the University of Illinois, specializing in painting. After graduating she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Linnea Riley's personal graphic style utilizes rich colors to produce whimsical and intriguing images. She creates with a variety of media including cut and painted paper, colored pencils and pastels. The results are appealing and fun, rich with imagination, skill and color.

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 began designing the Hannah Travel Calendar in 2000 and now designs our single yearly calendar, The Linnea Calendar with Artwork By Johanna Kriesel. She also produces luggage tags, holiday cards, art prints, posters and who knows what might be coming! She 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 and has also completed design projects for Pottery Barn, The Discovery Channel Stores, Travel Smith Catalog, the World Wildlife Fund, Pebble Beach, Mondavi and many others.

Linnea Design Player Roster

Michael has his eye on the big picture and keeps us all on the same game plan.
Linnea is the art director/corporate conscience and designs cards, magnets and other goodies.
Johanna designs the yearly calendars, tags, magnets, more cool stuff and creates the website.
Palma the office manager, in charge of incoming orders, has been answering your phone calls for 15 years.
Steven & John pack up your shipments.
Lucca, the Golden Retriever, is the cookie manager and morale officer.