illustrations created as part of the editorial illustration workshop at the academy of fine arts in Bologna with Bianca Bagnarelli. we were given articles on various topics on which we had to create a series of sketches and a final one. the topics were, in order: the importance of reading for young people, the inequalities of online learning during pandemic, the use of CRISPR to contain Lyme disease, the need to find silence and solitude in contemporary society.