Carlos Simpson is a London-based designer, artist and author. His work explores politics, culture and identity through visual language and storytelling. He is the author of Politics Design, Signs of Fingerprints, and My 2020 Lockdown Project.
Carlos Simpson is a London-based designer, artist and author. His work explores politics, culture and identity through visual language and storytelling. He is the author of Politics Design, Signs of Fingerprints, and My 2020 Lockdown Project.
My 2020 Lockdown Project is a visual record of a year lived under constraint. Built from drawings, studies, and short reflections, it documents what happens when routine collapses and attention turns inward.
The work moves between portrait, abstraction, and mark-making. It captures shifts in mood, time, and perception of how isolation changes the...
This is the author's sketchbook, where he shares some of his ideas and thoughts using a wide variety of techniques ranging from pencil drawings to watercolour, collage to coloured pencils, to pen and ink, handwriting, colours, photography, symbols, and information that we use every day. The book explores the individual in a social, cultural, and...
Politics Design examines political stamps as design artefacts: small images with outsized power. Through symbolism, typography, composition, and portraiture, stamps communicate national identity, ideology, and collective memory in a format designed to circulate.
This book looks closely at how states present themselves through visual language:...
