Books

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:...

You Make Your Rights is a visual and text-led work that examines how power is built, defended, and normalised, often through the stories we tell about identity, belonging, and fairness.

Using bold imagery and minimal language, Carlos Simpson invites the reader to confront uncomfortable contrasts: who is seen, who is protected, and who is expected...

Signs of Fingerprints explores handwriting as a living trace of identity. Through close observation and visual reflection, Carlos Simpson examines how marks on a page carry character, memory, and intention, often revealing what we cannot easily say out loud.

This book sits at the intersection of design, perception, and human behaviour. It invites...

Portraits of the Self & Fingerprints is a visual study of identity and how the face, the line, and the mark carry meaning. Through portraiture and pattern, Carlos Simpson explores the tension between what we show and what we conceal, and how a single trace can feel both personal and universal.

This book moves between image and reflection. It...