During a week-long trip earlier this month to Athens, the host city for 2004 Olympic Games, School of Design with the Central Academy of Fine Arts Dean Wang Min gathered a lot of graphic design works that will be used at the Athens Olympics.

The Athens Olympic graphic designs are "fantastic," said Wang, 47, who worked for Adobe Systems Incorporated for many years as a senior graphic designer and once taught at Yale University's School of Design.

He said the first moment he landed in Athens, he felt a little disappointed because there was little Olympic atmosphere he could sense around the city.

But when the night fell he happened to see the grand Parthenon bathed in glorious lights, and was captivated by it.

"From that moment, I began to believe that a country with such a great and amazing culture surely will hold a successful event," he said.

"But we must do better."

There was an energetic team consisting of the most excellent designers in Greece taking charge of designing a unique Games on a human scale and "they are doing a marvelous job," he said.

Wang said their designs highlighted ancient history and Greek culture, as well as its unique nature landscape while demonstrating them in a very modern way.

"Although so far I cannot say which key theme we should present for our Games, but at least it should be very 'Chinese'," he said.

A design management system is needed to organize an integrated and high-level design team in order to "create a simple, clear visual image and a perfect look for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games," Wang said.

"We are a larger country, we own more designers and obviously we have greater enthusiasm for the Olympic Games,'' he said. ''That's why we should do better."

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