Projects
VascAgeNet: Animated Vascular Ageing
Project
Do you know that your arteries can age faster than you? This animation explains 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. Drawings and animation by Francesco Guarnaccia.
Client
VascAgeNet is a network of Scientists, Clinicians, Engineers and Industry, working together to refine, harmonise and promote the use of vascular ageing measures, in order to improve clinical practice and to reduce the burden of CVD globally.
VascAgeNet is a COST Action Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union.
Christopher Mayer
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!
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.
