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Graphics director Alberto LucasLópezmoved from Spain to work for theSouthChina Morning Post in Hong Kong.He thinksG that some differences in stylehave to dowith Chinese writing."I couldclearly see theparallelism² between theChinese charactersand the visualpreferences," he says. Histheory is that Chinese visuals are

heavilyinfluenced by Chinese writing:complexsymbols with many elementscompressed ina reduced space.Nevertheless, López feelsit's important torespect these differences:"Sometimes wesee as incorrect what isdifferent from ourview of clear structures,strict order, andsynthesis. But it's just adifferent visualculture."

Graphics director Alberto LucasLópezmoved from Spain to work for theSouthChina Morning Post in Hong Kong.He thinksG that some differences in stylehave to dowith Chinese writing."I couldclearly see theparallelism² between theChinese charactersand the visualpreferences," he says. Histheory is that Chinese visuals are

heavilyinfluenced by Chinese writing:complexsymbols with many elementscompressed ina reduced space.Nevertheless, López feelsit's important torespect these differences:"Sometimes wesee as incorrect what isdifferent from ourview of clear structures,strict order, andsynthesis. But it's just adifferent visualculture."