This is how Vanessa Nguyen has built BYV.STUDIO on her own terms

Vanessa Nguyen runs BYV.STUDIO, a Melbourne-based design practice she leads largely on her own from a home studio, designing invitations, branding and scenography that look like no one else’s. Her work sits in and around the wedding world, yet she resists the idea that a wedding should carry a recognisable ‘wedding aesthetic’ – each project instead draws from the people it is for, as well as culture, fashion and art. She designs for longevity, not passing trends, treating a beautifully made object as a keepsake rather than something consumed and forgotten, and thinks of an invitation as a guest’s first encounter with an event: a considered reveal that sets a tone before anything else. She is candid, too, about the reach and limits of working solo, and why creative fit matters to her more than volume. TBI: Hi Vanessa, it’s great to be speaking to you. How are you? VN: I’m good. It’s been a busy few weeks of travel, work, family, fun, friends and business. Excited to be chatting with you.