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Une Insatiable Envie de Douceur (An Insatiable Craving for Sweetness)
Project
Researcher, science communication expert and RIVA Illustrations co-founder Fiammetta Ghedini explores, through drawing, one of today’s most pressing issues: sugar. Drawing from her personal experience, she conducts an in-depth, visually engaging investigation into our daily addiction to sugar, interviewing scientists (in particular Serge Ahmed, Vasanti Malik and Ashley Gearhardt) to shed light on its hidden impacts.
Free from moral judgment or easy solutions, Une Insatiable Envie de Douceur (An Insatiable Craving for Sweetness) offers an insightful analysis of this sweet yet toxic substance we can’t live without.
In French: Dargaud website
Client
Artist
Fiammetta Ghedini is the co-founder of RIVA Illustrations. After completing her PhD in Cognitive Sciences in 2011, she worked as the editorial coordinator of the European research communication project ERCcOMICS (2015–2019), which used comics to make cutting-edge science accessible to a wider audience.
Since 2019, she has been working as an artist and science communicator at RIVA Illustrations, creating illustrations, graphic novels, and visual narratives that bridge art and research.
In 2025, she published her first comic book with Dargaud, titled Une Insatiable Envie de Douceur, a thought-provoking and visually rich exploration of our complex relationship with sugar.
