Natasha Vuga graduated in visual communications from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1994 and obtained her master’s degree in 1999 at Central Saint Martins in London.
She is a co-founder of the studio arnoldvuga+ where she has been employed since 2002. She has received several awards and recognitions; the student Prešeren Award, recognition for good design at BIO 14, several Brumen awards for excellent Slovenian design, the design achievement recognition from the Association of Designers of Slovenia, and the Rozman recognition for pedagogical work at the Faculty of Design. She mainly works on projects in the field of culture and branding. Between 2021 and 2022, she was a member of the expert commission for the registration of self-employed individuals in culture at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
In a team of four designers, who designed and implemented the freely accessible online tool Recommendations for Evaluating Design Services within the Association of Designers of Slovenia and in the partner network of the Center for Creativity, she strives to connect the design profession and build a community to raise awareness of the role of design and the appropriate evaluation of design work in Slovenia.
At the Faculty of Design in Ljubljana, she has been teaching in the Department of Visual Communications since 2006, and since 2011 as an assistant professor.