Barbora gained her PhD from the AAAD (VŠUP), Prague in the field of graphic design, under Prof. Rostislav Vaněk. She received the Good Design Award at the Czech National Awards for Student Design (2008, CI Foundation Leontinka) and won the competition for the visual identity of the cultural festival Nethworks.cz. She is a member of the creative team with Toman Design.

Barbora is interested in the overlap of typography and image. In 2011 she conducted research in the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami.