RIVA Illustrations Agency for Science Research & Innovation through Visual Arts

Lorraine Kenny
Communications director, Knight first amendment institut at Columbia University

Working with RIVA Illustrations on An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media was an absolute pleasure. While we hired Ghedini as an illustrator to help enliven a set of short essays on internet “logics,” she quickly became an invaluable collaborator. She was intuitive, creative, and flexible, responding to our feedback while also bringing new ideas to the table. We could not be more thrilled with the final results. Ghedini’s illustrations are beautiful as well as thought provoking. They transformed the project into something extraordinary.

Thierry Poibeau
CNRS DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, ADJUNCT HEAD OF THE LATTICE LABORATORY

I contacted RIVA Illustrations to create a video describing our project on Poetry generation. Fiammetta and her team at RIVA were both very creative and imaginative, providing a video that was fun, informative and faithful to the project. The result was delivered timely and made it possible to disseminate our result to a large audience.

Xavier Fresquet
Deputy Director // SCAI // Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence

RIVA Illustrations proved to be an exceptional collaborator! In my role as deputy director of an AI center at a university, Fiammetta worked closely alongside us to distill the crucial insights from a doctoral event that encompassed a wide range of topics we are actively pursuing. Through an iterative approach, we fine-tuned both the textual content and the accompanying visuals. Presenting our work through this fresh medium was an immensely fulfilling experience. We are eagerly anticipating future collaborations with RIVA Illustrations.

Andrea Rissing
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Environment and Natural Resources The Ohio State University

RIVA Illustrations was wonderful to work with. As scholars venturing into representing our work graphically for the first time, we did not know where to start. Fiammetta collaborated with us to distill the insights of a four-hour workshop into a clear, colorful, comic. We iteratively developed the wording and images, and the conversations helped us clarify our audience, thesis, and contribution. This was such a rewarding way to present our work through new avenues. RIVA streamlined the process and made it accessible, fun, and fulfilling. We can’t wait to work with them again.

Djian Sadadou
Communication & Outreach Officer at Office for Climate Education

We worked with RIVA Illustration in the realization of an animated video on the topic of climate change education. From ideation to production their team showed outstanding creativity, adaptability and science communication expertise. Our collaboration during the creation process was smooth, productive and always constructive with numerous feedback moments.
RIVA Illustration is partner that was inspired by our mission and that in turn inspired us and our audience around the world with their work.

Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Executive Director and Secretary

It has been a great pleasure to work with Riva Illustrations for the third year in a row. Super responsive, extremely professional and absolutely always on time! Looking forward to continuing our cooperation for years to come

Christopher Mayer
AIT Austrian Institute od Technology, Action Chair of VascAgeNet Cost Action

The collaboration with RIVA Illustrations was very inspiring and we are very happy and proud of the final results! Thank you for the great work!

Eva Beaujouan
ERC Principal Investigator, University of Vienna

This work in dialogue with artists was extremely enriching. It has been extremely satisfying to see Fiammetta and Maddalena turn the themes into illustrations with freedom and style. The project and its subject took on a more real dimension by being rendered by Maddalena’s hand.

Davide Lo Presti
Academic and International Research Projects Coordinator

Artists are those individuals who managed to bring in anything and then take advantage of it to donate understandable messaged to humanity. RIVA Illustrations are artists borrowed to science and I am very proud to have work with them because they also bring great management skills and are full of important suggestions. Thanks RIVA. Davide Lo Presti SMARTI ETN Coordinator (http://smartietn.eu)

Lise Woensdregt
Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

I loved working with RIVA, since Till and Fiammetta helped me to translate my research findings into comics that spoke to my interlocutors, who felt they accurately depicted their lives and experiences. I also notice that the comics continue have a continued impact. I am currently designing a new research project with them, and they have already suggested that we should use comics as a way to disseminate the research findings!

Yves Sciama
Science journalist, Moderator of the Sciences et Médias 2023 conference, former president of AJSPI

Fiammetta did a great job live sketching our conference. Her drawings were artful, smart and engaging, and they gave the event an original touch which the audience and the organising team appreciated. It definitely adds something to any event to have an artist with an original mindset contribute thoughtful drawings. I recommend the RIVA Illustrations experience!

Marc Brightman
Full Professor, Department of Cultural Heritage, Principal Investigator of the Impact HAU ERC Grant 

After seeing the wonderful illustrations and graphic novel they produced for my partner and colleague, I contacted RIVA Illustrations to discuss working together to produce visual outputs for my research project. This led to a series of collaborations with artists, which are ongoing, and have led to several beautiful, varied and entertaining visual communications for our research. The creative process has also proven to be a useful and stimulating dimension of the research itself, especially thanks to Fiammetta, who has an exceptional talent for engaging visually with academic discourse.

Maaike Matelski
Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

It was a pleasure to collaborate with RIVA Illustrations. Fiammetta and Till were very helpful in guiding the project and provided generous input and suggestions. The comics were shared with the depicted NGO and community members in draft form and in the final printed version, and they were very pleased with the result.

Lorraine Kenny
Communications director, Knight first amendment institut at Columbia University

Working with RIVA Illustrations on An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media was an absolute pleasure. While we hired Ghedini as an illustrator to help enliven a set of short essays on internet “logics,” she quickly became an invaluable collaborator. She was intuitive, creative, and flexible, responding to our feedback while also bringing new ideas to the table. We could not be more thrilled with the final results. Ghedini’s illustrations are beautiful as well as thought provoking. They transformed the project into something extraordinary.

Thierry Poibeau
CNRS DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, ADJUNCT HEAD OF THE LATTICE LABORATORY

I contacted RIVA Illustrations to create a video describing our project on Poetry generation. Fiammetta and her team at RIVA were both very creative and imaginative, providing a video that was fun, informative and faithful to the project. The result was delivered timely and made it possible to disseminate our result to a large audience.

Xavier Fresquet
Deputy Director // SCAI // Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence

RIVA Illustrations proved to be an exceptional collaborator! In my role as deputy director of an AI center at a university, Fiammetta worked closely alongside us to distill the crucial insights from a doctoral event that encompassed a wide range of topics we are actively pursuing. Through an iterative approach, we fine-tuned both the textual content and the accompanying visuals. Presenting our work through this fresh medium was an immensely fulfilling experience. We are eagerly anticipating future collaborations with RIVA Illustrations.

Andrea Rissing
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Environment and Natural Resources The Ohio State University

RIVA Illustrations was wonderful to work with. As scholars venturing into representing our work graphically for the first time, we did not know where to start. Fiammetta collaborated with us to distill the insights of a four-hour workshop into a clear, colorful, comic. We iteratively developed the wording and images, and the conversations helped us clarify our audience, thesis, and contribution. This was such a rewarding way to present our work through new avenues. RIVA streamlined the process and made it accessible, fun, and fulfilling. We can’t wait to work with them again.

Djian Sadadou
Communication & Outreach Officer at Office for Climate Education

We worked with RIVA Illustration in the realization of an animated video on the topic of climate change education. From ideation to production their team showed outstanding creativity, adaptability and science communication expertise. Our collaboration during the creation process was smooth, productive and always constructive with numerous feedback moments.
RIVA Illustration is partner that was inspired by our mission and that in turn inspired us and our audience around the world with their work.

Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Executive Director and Secretary

It has been a great pleasure to work with Riva Illustrations for the third year in a row. Super responsive, extremely professional and absolutely always on time! Looking forward to continuing our cooperation for years to come

Christopher Mayer
AIT Austrian Institute od Technology, Action Chair of VascAgeNet Cost Action

The collaboration with RIVA Illustrations was very inspiring and we are very happy and proud of the final results! Thank you for the great work!

Eva Beaujouan
ERC Principal Investigator, University of Vienna

This work in dialogue with artists was extremely enriching. It has been extremely satisfying to see Fiammetta and Maddalena turn the themes into illustrations with freedom and style. The project and its subject took on a more real dimension by being rendered by Maddalena’s hand.

Davide Lo Presti
Academic and International Research Projects Coordinator

Artists are those individuals who managed to bring in anything and then take advantage of it to donate understandable messaged to humanity. RIVA Illustrations are artists borrowed to science and I am very proud to have work with them because they also bring great management skills and are full of important suggestions. Thanks RIVA. Davide Lo Presti SMARTI ETN Coordinator (http://smartietn.eu)

Lise Woensdregt
Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

I loved working with RIVA, since Till and Fiammetta helped me to translate my research findings into comics that spoke to my interlocutors, who felt they accurately depicted their lives and experiences. I also notice that the comics continue have a continued impact. I am currently designing a new research project with them, and they have already suggested that we should use comics as a way to disseminate the research findings!

Yves Sciama
Science journalist, Moderator of the Sciences et Médias 2023 conference, former president of AJSPI

Fiammetta did a great job live sketching our conference. Her drawings were artful, smart and engaging, and they gave the event an original touch which the audience and the organising team appreciated. It definitely adds something to any event to have an artist with an original mindset contribute thoughtful drawings. I recommend the RIVA Illustrations experience!

Marc Brightman
Full Professor, Department of Cultural Heritage, Principal Investigator of the Impact HAU ERC Grant 

After seeing the wonderful illustrations and graphic novel they produced for my partner and colleague, I contacted RIVA Illustrations to discuss working together to produce visual outputs for my research project. This led to a series of collaborations with artists, which are ongoing, and have led to several beautiful, varied and entertaining visual communications for our research. The creative process has also proven to be a useful and stimulating dimension of the research itself, especially thanks to Fiammetta, who has an exceptional talent for engaging visually with academic discourse.

Maaike Matelski
Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

It was a pleasure to collaborate with RIVA Illustrations. Fiammetta and Till were very helpful in guiding the project and provided generous input and suggestions. The comics were shared with the depicted NGO and community members in draft form and in the final printed version, and they were very pleased with the result.