Meet Dena Jane of By Hand Designs, a traveling illustrator specializing in hand-drawn custom designs, brand illustration, strategic visioning, art direction, and services to help emerging brands grow

Meet Your
Designer

I’m Dena Jane, the Illustrator, Brand Designer, and Meditative Guide behind By Hand Designs. I believe in the power of design to transform businesses and connect with people on a deeper level. I'm not just a designer; I'm a creative partner who sees the value in your offerings and helps guide you in sharing them in a real, honest, and consistent way.

Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, By Hand was created in a mobile sprinter van outfitted as a home and design studio. I’ve been living, traveling, and creating from here for 5 years. I am ever-inspired by the views out our back door as they shift from soothing ocean waters to desert sands filled with curious critters, to awe-inspiring mountaintops.

Join me on a journey of self-exploration and deep harmony with nature through custom hand-drawn designs and deeply strategic creative visioning.

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At By Hand We Believe In

Custom hand-drawn logos and illustrations from By Hand Designs, abstract spiral illustration showcasing how we unearth your potential, shift perspectives, and reimagine your design direction

Shifting Perspectives

You deserve designs as distinctive and versatile as you are. I strategize to unearth your gifts and design in a way that allows your ideas to with endless possibilities. I focus on designs that are strong independently and collectively, allowing you to break apart elements reimagine them over and over again.

Hand-drawn sun and moon graphic illustration from By Hand Designs showcasing how we craft custom designs for human connection and intention

Human Connection

I focus on helping businesses that create products, services, and experiences which allow us to slow down and remember to deeply recenter in the human experience. Through hand-drawn, organic shapes, I enable you to stay true to your honest and real presence, and build a supportive and intentional community around what you bring to the world.

Hand-drawn palm tree graphic illustration from By Hand Designs showcasing how we craft designs that help you harmonize with the world and show up with heart to enable better tomorrows

Conscious Creation

I build for the present to create outlasting change for the future. In our work we bond, explore, and dive deep to harmonize with the world around you. I dig up gifts while honoring the shared earth beneath our feet. I believe in creating for those who show up for the world with heart and build brands that enable a better tomorrow.

Custom illustrated hand design for logos and branding showcasing how we nurture the handmade and honor attention to detail and an organic touch to designs build for emotional impact

Honoring the Hand-Crafted

I believe that in a digital world, our work exists to honor and maintain the importance of creating with your own two hands. Bringing a raw, real, personal touch to designs and feeding that into the work that you do. My designs are crafted with care, attention to detail, and a touch of organic human-crafted feel.

Our Design Process

Every step of our work together, from initial discovery call to design delivery, is a thoughtfully refined, proven process that not only creates aligned visuals but also clarity and connection.

With all of the work we do together, the process remains consistent to keep the results consistent.

Read on below for more details around each step and how we refine abstract ideas into tangible results.

01 DISCOVERY CALL

02 STRATEGY SESSION

03 ALIGNMENT & VISIONING

04 DESIGN EXECUTION & DELIVERY

With You Every Step of the Way

Learn about our effective and proven design process at By Hand Designs. Get started with a Discovery Call to align, uncover your personal story, explore services, and define a vision forward
In our design process, we always start with deep Strategic Exploration to get the Brand, Unearth Your Values, Define Your Target Audience, Find Clarity & Meaning, own Your Distinction in your branding
The third step in our design process is Alignment & Visioning to validate our strategic and visual findings and then get right into creative exploration with your custom hand-drawn branding designs
The last step in our process is the Design Execution. Our creative Exploration leads to custom design direction which then receive feedback before your designs are packaged up for File Hand-off & Delivery.

Our Clients

My work spans from deeply personal small businesses to mid-market brands and large-scale household name corporations.

In all of my work, market to market, I maintain a consistent approach with our growing list of notable clientele. 



I craft brands that celebrate the untamed spirit while nurturing a sense of calm, harmony, empowerment, and belonging. Those who forge new paths for human connection and re-root back into our natural environments. I design for those creating products, services, and experiences made to better our tomorrows.

Logos from notable clients, brands, and organizations we've worked with such as Sperry, Neiman Marcus, Crayola, CorePower Yoga, TOMS, Wildhaven Wools, and Yoga Works Boston.

Have a project in mind?
By Hand is now accepting new
clients for 2026.

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