Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs
Hand Lettering
A course by Lisa Perrin , Illustrator, Hand-Lettering Artist, and Professor
Joined December 2020
About the video: Hand Lettering
Overview
“Refer back to your research gathering and spend some time just sketching from the inspiration images you found. ”
In this video lesson Lisa Perrin addresses the topic: Hand Lettering, which is part of the Domestika online course: Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs. Combine hand-lettering and illustration techniques to create unique packaging for any product.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hand Lettering Now that we've explored creating compositions that we like for our illustration, let's focus on composing the hand lettering in the design. Hand lettering is one of my favorite subjects and I enjoy integrating it with illustration. It always looks better when the same hand has done both parts. Although I appreciate typography very much, hand lettering adds a special hand-drawn component that gives more warmth and life to the lettering. We should approach hand lettering in the same way as our illustration. We should start by thinking about visual inspiration and design researc...”
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Course summary for: Packaging Illustration: Create Imaginative Product Designs
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Design, Digital Illustration, Hand Lettering, Packaging, Product Design, Traditional illustration

Lisa Perrin
A course by Lisa Perrin
Lisa Perrin is an illustrator, hand-lettering artist, and professor based in Baltimore, Maryland. She was born in New York and went to college there, achieving a BFA in Drawing and Painting. She later went on to study a Master’s in illustration at MICA where she now works full-time as a professor.
Lisa has worked on over thirty book covers as well as for clients including Macy’s, Anthropologie, Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Macmillan, The Saturday Evening Post, and Krispy Kreme. Her work has also been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, 3X3 Magazine, and Print Magazine.
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