After dedicating the previous six editions of Portfolio of the Week to Brazilian infographic designers, we get back ‘on the road’, and we couldn’t have asked for a better way to start this trip. Working currently at the South China Morning Post alongside Adolfo Arranz (who we had the pleasure to interview just a couple of weeks ago), Alberto Lucas López shared with us some of his amazing infographics, and told us how he began his professional career.
“While I was studying Journalism at University of Navarra (Spain), I had the great fortune of discovering the subject of Infographics. In the first class, I was surprised by its basic concepts. In the second, I started to believe the maxim which claims that infographics is “JOURNALISM IN CAPITAL LETTERS”. By the third class, I was already addicted to this passionate world.”
“During the summer of 2008, I became part of the Infographics section at ‘El Correo‘ newspaper (Spain). Our works were published in most of the regional newspapers of the Vocento group. In July 2011, I became part of the Design section, where the newspaper´s daily pages are sketched, as well as its supplements and weekly magazine ‘GPS’. That same year, ‘El Correo’ was awarded the continent’s best-designed regional newspaper at the European Newspaper Design Award. In June 2012, I returned to the Infographics section at Vocento, where I designed alongside JM.Benítez, the special coverage of the London Olympic Games: thirty-two explanatory graphics detailing each sport.”
“In March 2013 I completed a Professional Motion Graphics Masters Degree in Madrid, where I worked as a freelance, and in September I moved to the Far East, to work as a Senior Infographic Designer at South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong.”
And here are the infographics Alberto shared with us:
Hong Kong, Air Epicenter | South China Morning Post
Lights, Camera, Action | South China Morning Post
Rolling Stones | South China Morning Post
Stratocaster | South China Morning Post
Under the sea | South China Morning Post
Our Daily Faces | South China Morning Post
Dead in life, alive in death| South China Morning Post
And the Oscar goes to… | South China Morning Post
Olympic Games | El Correo
Follow Alberto’s updates on Twitter (@aLucasLopez), and visit his website (www.lucasinfografia.com) for more amazing examples of infographic design. And we’ll see you next week, for another portfolio of the week.
Written by Tiago Veloso
Tiago Veloso is the founder and editor of Visualoop and Visualoop Brasil . He is Portuguese, currently based in Bonito, Brazil.