She initially became well-known for her page "Cica's Corner" in popular Yugoslav magazine for entertainment, Politikin Zabavnik.
[4][5] She became a director of the computing center at the School of Electrical Engineering of Belgrade University in 2001, that was quite devastated at the time by the anti-university politics during the previous decade.
After she completed her degree, she became a teaching assistant at the School of Electrical Engineering of Belgrade University and took a break from drawing.
In 1973, the editors of Politikin Zabavnik recommended Vladana to illustrate The Treasury of Children's Poems by Jova Jovanović Zmaj.
After this she illustrated more than twenty books for children: Sparrow Rayko, Most Beautiful Fables, Counting Songs, For Your Birthday, Princess Milly, and others.
When Slobodan Milošević came to power and made unreasonable demands, which she refused to support, she was not allowed to enter her school building workplace for two years.
She started the correspondence with the list of a thousand alumni around the world (most of whom were her former students), informing them about events during this time period.