Projects
IPSL Climatology superheros
Project
We have created seven researchers super heros to illustrate the main climatology research areas of IPSL. The seven strategical themes for climatology research are: Marine biogeochemistry, ecosystems and resources; Land biogeochemistry, ecosystems and agriculture; Atmospheric composition and air quality; The Water Cycle; Paleoclimate; Statistics for Analysis, Modelling and Assimilation (SAMA); Solar systems; Internal and forced climate variability.
Client
The Institute Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) was created in 1991 by Gérard Mégie and some of his colleagues to coordinate research efforts in the natural climate sciences in Île-de-France, so that major environmental challenges might be better addressed together than by individual laboratories on their own. Initially, the institute intended to improve our understanding of the global climate system but its scientific life has broadened and diversified, integrating research on phenomena at regional to local scales, interfaces with the Earth’s surface and ecosystems which are essential to understand the system as a whole.
Artist
Maddalena is an Italian illustrator and graphic designer, living between Livorno and Paris.
After studying at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence, she became a freelance illustrator and worked with many clients, from the fashion industry to scientific magazines to editorial illustration and children books.
She created the official illustrations for Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Ball tour, and illustrations for Brandon Maxwell’s collection for the New York Fashion Week 2015 and 2016. She also works for Verdissima as pattern designer, and for Vespa Piaggio as illustrator and painter.
She works since 2016 for Cancer World magazine and Sharing Progress in Cancer Care as editorial illustrator and graphic recorder.
