Bianca Wendt is a graphic designer, art director and some-time teacher based in Clerkenwell, London, UK. She set up her studio in 2007. Bianca works across different media including books, magazines, identities, stationery, exhibition design and websites. She also works with a network of photographers, illustrators, editors and web programmers. She is the art director of the London Fashion Week Daily and has worked on campaigns and printed material for Topshop, Topman and Mulberry.

Could you please tell us more about your background and career? How did you get to work with so many different media?

I initially studied architecture in Sydney, before realising that unfortunately I wasn't very good at it! It's strange that as a graphic designer I am obsessed with details whereas in architecture I struggled with them. So I began to study graphic design, then went to London on an exchange programme and never came back. After starting a Masters degree at Central Saint Martins, I did a summer internship at the Momu Museum in Antwerp, which sparked an interest in design for fashion. After I graduated, I moved to Istanbul with my boyfriend. It was quite a spontaneous thing to do but I loved it from the start. I worked there on a variety of projects including art direction of a contemporary culture magazine, look books for a fashion designer, an identity for a film studio and teaching graphic design at a university. I also worked on some personal projects documenting my experience of Istanbul and its inhabitants, taxi drivers in particular. I lived there almost two years and still go back whenever I can. After that I moved back to London for a brief stint in a design studio followed by freelance work for Phaidon and Ronnie Cooke-Newhouse. I set up my own studio in London in 2007. And the boyfriend is now my husband.