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The Sunday health section of Corriere della Sera: every week a topic in medicine, prevention, psychology or public health becomes a cover image.

300+ published covers 1,000+ visual concepts Frequency · weekly

Human figure with hourglasses on different parts of the body — Do you know your “ageotype”? There are four of them — for now — depending on which “part” of us ages first. Knowing your own type can help you take more targeted action to slow the process, bringing the rest of the body along with it.

The assignment

Making health visible without resorting to clinical imagery.

The illustrations are almost always developed from the cover headline and subheadline. From those few lines, I look for an image that can make a specific scientific topic immediately understandable, without reducing it to a diagram, an explanatory anatomical illustration or stock imagery. The visual language I developed for Corriere Salute uses the body, narrative action and conceptual metaphor. The image must work on its own, while being conceived from the outset to work alongside the masthead, headline and journalistic structure of the page.

Selected illustrations

The headline stays beside the image.

Man trapped in a cage surrounded by symbols of addiction — 23
How to help young people with addictions Substance misuse — involving illegal drugs, psychotropic medication, alcohol or tobacco — and gambling, including online gambling, are increasingly widespread. Local services provide treatment pathways, yet many young people — and their families — still hesitate to seek help.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria — 01
**What can we do to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria?**The problem is worsening, partly because of climate change. Tackling it requires a global approach involving everyone and accounting for the many factors at play.

Man relaxing in a deckchair — 14
And now let’s allow ourselves a little “healthy boredom” Taking time during a holiday to do nothing can be restorative for the mind. Great writers argued it long ago; now science confirms it.

Published context

The image is conceived for the cover.

The editorial design is not a later addition: headline, subheadline and illustration are read together. That is why the published layouts are part of the way the project is presented.

“Sai qual è il tuo invecchiotipo?” — published cover — Do you know your “ageotype”? · published cover

“Batteri resistenti” — published cover — Antibiotic-resistant bacteria · published cover

300+published covers

1,000+visual concepts developed

2–3+directions for each issue

Weeklyeditorial rhythm

The editorial process

Not one idea, but a choice among several valid solutions.

For each issue I generally develop two, three or more alternative visual directions and present them to the editor. The selected solution is then developed into the published cover.

The thousand-plus proposals are not rejected sketches: they are different interpretations of the same subject, conceived to offer a genuine choice. Each week, my task is to find the most effective balance between scientific accuracy, editorial immediacy and visual impact.

01Headline and subheadline

I identify the scientific and editorial core.

02Alternative directions

I develop several concepts for discussion with the editor.

03Final cover

I take the selected solution through to publication.

Working sketches · alternative directions

The same subject can lead in very different directions.

These are working sketches: quick decision-making tools, not finished artworks. They are used to put different, comparable ideas on the table before choosing which direction to develop.

I show only three examples here. The selected direction is then developed, redrawn and taken through to the published image.

Healthy boredom

Three readings of the same theme, from a narrative scene to a more abstract synthesis.

Alternative sketch for “Sana noia” — sketch · alternative direction

Selected sketch for “Sana noia” — sketch · selected direction

The unconscious

Two independent concepts: entering an inner territory, or lifting what the mind keeps hidden.

Selected sketch for “Inconscio” — sketch · selected direction

Alternative sketch for “Inconscio” — sketch · alternative direction

Waiting lists

Two metaphors for the same obstacle: time accumulating inside an hourglass; or access to care turned into the eye of a needle. The Rod of Asclepius becomes the needle and the queue has to pass through it, echoing the Gospel image of the camel and the eye of a needle.

Selected sketch for “Liste d’attesa” — sketch · selected direction

Alternative sketch for “Liste d’attesa” — sketch · alternative direction

“Perfezionismo” — published cover — Perfectionism · published cover

“Sana noia” — published cover — “Healthy boredom” · published cover

Older man in a wheelchair receiving home care — 08
**Care at home. Why is it still so difficult to obtain?**People who are not self-sufficient and live in fragile conditions are entitled to home care under Italy’s essential care standards. Yet reality is often different.

Mosquito targeting different people — 02
**Who attracts mosquitoes most — and why?**Some people really are like magnets for these annoying insects. It depends on skin odour and also on the amount of carbon dioxide we emit.
Practical advice for effective protection.

Figure superimposed on the Vitruvian Man — 06
**Perfectionism. When can it become an illness?**Demanding more from ourselves or others than situations require can create real psychological problems, especially during adolescence.

Woman surrounded by accumulated objects — 17
**If we cannot throw anything away, are we compulsive hoarders?**When difficulty parting with objects can become a genuine disorder.

Healthcare workers running while carrying a red cross — 15
Emergency support for frontline doctors — and patients A book written by people working in emergency departments becomes a portrait of the difficulties and needs of both those who work there and those who seek help.

Traveller with the world as a hat — 20
Why travelling can really be good for us The very idea of setting off can stimulate the brain and refresh the body.

“Pronto Soccorso” — published cover — Emergency department · published cover

“App sportive” — published cover — Sports apps · published cover

Anthropomorphic liver running — 03
**The rules for a healthy liver**A unique and essential organ, it “never complains” because it has no pain receptors.
Yet it can slowly begin to suffer if we do not give it adequate — and simple — care.

Person curled up in an enclosed space with a tree behind them — 19
**The impact of loneliness on the mind**Recent studies show that a lack of human relationships is linked to the incidence of dementia.

Runner beside a sports app icon — 16
**Are sports apps useful — or do they make us anxious?**They are used not only to measure and monitor physical activity, but also to share the results.
That, however, can backfire.

Hourglass filled with people waiting for an appointment — 10
Tests and appointments: how long is the wait? Almost four years for a scheduled colonoscopy, more than three months for an urgent visit. Waiting lists in Italy are an increasing problem. A new Federconsumatori survey and a guide to asserting patients’ rights.

People with joint pain — 05
Let’s stop calling them simply “rheumatism”. Behind this popular term lies the complex world of rheumatic diseases which, contrary to common belief, are not caused by cold and damp. Smoking and pollution, however, do affect them.

What happened to the unconscious? Our understanding of this aspect of mental life has changed profoundly since Freud, but what happens in our minds outside our awareness has not become any less important.

Human figures carrying different forms of stress — 09
**Stress is not the same for everyone**Men suffer from it more than women, but in general the daily burden of stress-inducing experiences has increased in recent years. The body can be overwhelmed, with consequences for health.

DNA double helix constricted by hourglasses — 12
**Do tests that reveal our biological age really work?**Blood or saliva tests that estimate the health of our cells are now available to the general public. But how reliable are they?

“L’inconscio” — published cover — The unconscious · published cover

“La solitudine” — published page — Loneliness · published page

Anthropomorphic brain running while reading and listening to music — 07
Exercises that make the brain “smarter” Our “control room” can be trained just like a muscle. Thanks to the stimuli it receives, it continually updates its knowledge and forms new connections between neurons.

Woman sitting in a room full of plants — 22
**Houseplants can help us feel better (thanks to their microbiome)**Bacteria and fungi are mainly responsible for keeping them healthy and thriving, and this can also have a positive effect on our well-being.

Woman surrounded by lightning symbolising negative stress — 11
Learning to control “negative” stress to combat diabetes and obesity Beyond a certain threshold, the body’s response to exhausting situations triggers a vicious circle with these — and other — chronic diseases, putting our health at serious risk.

Older woman playing hopscotch — 21
The disappearance of “middle age” While other stages, such as childhood or adolescence, are relatively well defined, the period in between is now much harder to define, for both biological and psychological reasons.

A large red cross shown worn and exhausted — 04
Emergency departments under increasing strain For more than a year, visits to emergency departments have increased and corridors have become overcrowded. Both new and longstanding problems are to blame.

A weekly series must remain coherent without becoming predictable.

More than 300 published covers and over 1,000 visual directions reflect an ongoing body of work based not on repeating a formula, but on renewing the relationship between scientific content, journalistic synthesis and image every week.