Projects
VascAgeNet Board
Project
Do you know that your arteries can age faster than you? This board explains, case by case, the concept of vascular ageing and highlights the importance of looking after your arteries to prevent damage to your organs. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, regardless of gender, ethnicity or income. The concept that vascular age, as opposed to chronological age, is better related to the prognosis of CVD is rapidly evolving.
Client
Christopher holds a PhD in mathematics and early stepped into the highly interdisciplinary field of applied mathematics for cardiovascular applications. He currently focuses his research activities on cuff based methods for the assessment of arterial stiffness and aortic hemodynamics. He isan active member of the Artery society and designated chair of the COST Action CA18216 “Network for Research in Vascular Ageing”.
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!
Artist
Francesco Guarnaccia is a cartoonist, illustrator and motion designer based in Turin.
He has always been drawing comics by himself, as a self taught artist. He studied industrial design in Florence at ISIA Design and worked for one year for Parcodiyellowstone, a web design studio based in Milan, as a motion designer. Now he lives in Turin and works as a freelance, doing comics and animator in the Studio Fortissimi.
He is part of the author’s collective Mammaiuto, with whom he has published several books. His work has been published in Italy by Bao Publishing, Feltrinelli, Shockdom and many others.
In 2019 he has been part of the ERCcOMICS project, to translate the research of Prof. Michael Bronstein, about fake news detection, in a comic, “Fabula“, with the collaboration of Lorenzo Ghetti as a scriptwriter. He has participated to AAAS2020 and ESOF 2022 accompanying many scientific talks with my live drawings.
