As a champion of creative brands and a lifelong problem-solver, Arianne Foulks has focused her career for the last 20 years on building online homes for fascinating people.
Her design agency, Aeolidia, creates branding, email marketing, and super-effective Shopify sites for designers and artisans.
She lives in Seattle, recently married the love of her life, is raising teens, will walk any distance, and was once bitten by a baby elephant seal.
Can discuss forever: the book she’s currently reading, website pet peeves, ocean life, and entrepreneurship.
She’s all about: houseplants, polishing beach stones, embroidery, pottery, book stores, roller skating, cocktails, jogging, nature walks, mountains, and the sea.
Captain & Founder of Aeolidia
The Shopify development agency for creatives
Aeolidia has championed designer and artisan brands for 20 years, launching more than 700 thoughtful redesigns to help businesses level up. The Aeolidia team is an unparalleled “one stop shop” for creative people in need of a remarkable and effective ecommerce site. The design agency helps successful businesses boost sales by increasing conversion rates, average order value, and customer retention.
UPPERCASE Magazine’s Business Columnist
Arianne has been writing quarterly columns for UPPERCASE since 2017. The magazine has an enthusiastic and loyal readership of designers, illustrators, craftspeople, creative entrepreneurs and paper lovers around the world. Ads-free, with high-quality production values and a unique design aesthetic, the content of each issue is eclectic and inspiring.
Profiled in Mother / Founder
Arianne is featured in the book Mother / Founder, an inspirational and empowering celebration of more than sixty women who are both dedicated mothers and successful entrepreneurs.
“Featured here are the stories of more than sixty mothers (including big names like author and artist Maira Kalman and Justina Blakeney of the Jungalow but also farmers, lawyers, pastry chefs, and more), who describe how they pursued their entrepreneurial dreams, overcame obstacles, achieved success, and found professional contentment, all while providing for their families and parenting their children. The book offers readers tools and practical advice for starting a business and tackling the unique challenges of entrepreneurship and parenthood. It all adds up to a one-of-a-kind manual-cum-gift book for women looking to start and grow their own businesses.”
Trusted Speaker & Teacher
Arianne Foulks has been speaking directly to design-oriented shop owners for nearly two decades, and has unique insight into the challenges involved in starting as a solo designer and growing sustainably to six or seven figures and beyond. A few communities she’s spoken for (among many others):
Praise for Arianne’s leadership, strategy, and communication skills
📣 More folks need to interview Arianne Foulks from Aeolidia. If you run a marketing or ecom pod/show, she is an AWESOME agency founder & you should invite her on. She’s sharp, a tremendous communicator, & tons of fun!
I always enjoy reading your thoughtful words, and wanted to say how proud I am of you for the business you’ve built. It’s not often that I see a small business that is truly so diverse and dynamic, and I appreciate all of you’ve done to support your community and set an example for the rest of us. As a WOC in the creative field, you’re a business owner I genuinely look up to and feel inspired by.
I am absolutely obsessed with stories of people who backed in to a successful business because their punk rock side hustle grew to the point where they had to take it seriously. Arianne, for example, was helping bands and zinesters make websites, and now she owns a web design company. People like us had to get our MBAs on the job, the hard way, after years of trying literally everything and never being quite sure if what we were doing was effective.
Now that I’ve had the chance to work with the team, I’m afraid I’ve been spoiled for any other agency! The talent and depth of knowledge everyone has is so inspiring (not to mention the kindness, humor, positivity, I could go on!)
I’m so proud of how productive and resilient Aeolidia has been during such turbulent times. Great job creating a company that is not only creative and friendly, but also successful by any measure!
Arianne believed in me when I couldn’t even believe in myself and she brought me back from a burnout so deep I was having nightmares about clients! I have done my best work for Aeolidia. I reached a level of pride in myself that I didn’t know possible. What a truly magical company to work for.
Work with Arianne Foulks
Hire Arianne’s team
For anyone needing an online shop, branding, or email marketing expertise, contact Arianne to hire her team of geniuses! Visit aeolidia.com
Hire Arianne to speak
Arianne and her team are available to speak about building an impactful business in the retail space, on these topics.
Interview Arianne
Arianne tends to be chatty, a bit humorous, and she always works in some helpful advice or actionable ideas. Please get in touch here.