Carlos Simpson Publications

Imagine a world without identity, and what my mind would do trying to wrap itself around the concept of someone trying to sell me the idea of identity. I don’t mean lacking the ability to distinguish ourselves from other entities as separate individuals, I mean the idea of knowing who other people *are*. To relate this to open, let’s step back a moment from the idea of accounts *at all think of the internet as just one giant bulletin board, where anyone can leave notes anywhere. you’ve articulated the question well, but then you’ve dropped it, and fallen back to discussing the identity of blog posters again. Identity in a world of physical people you have met, people can talk to in person, is a kind of baseline. Knowing “ who someone is” in such a context means knowing what they look like, how they talk, what they believe, where they live, and what they do for a living. in theory, one might be acquainted with a person in that kind of way, and still be deceived about their identity; for example, they might be a secret mole, operating under deep cover for a foreign power. But for personal acquaintance still seems to be the best kind of identity you could ask for. The second kind of “identity” has developed, whereby one is known by one’s token. Originally this was one’s mark or signature; appended to a handwritten letter (or to some other sample of one’s handwriting) it was a fair indication that the signed content was one’s own work, or at least that one assented to its meaning.

2016 has been a very intense, full year of events and Politics Design. Very different from any previous one’s. With regard to politics, seems like they were all over the media and for the first time, Fake News were an essential topic of any social-political debate. Being accustomed to posters, signs, stickers, etc., exclusively based on typography and layout. This time it was somehow different and social networks exclusively Twitter and Facebook have assumed an extremely fundamental role in elections both in Europe – UK ‘Brexit‘ and in the United States the emergence of a new character named Donald Trump. From here we can see that information and manipulation of information was the key to these choices and the results of them. So everything happens so fast like a huge snowball that exists but not many of us understand in a war of constant bombardment of information. The book is a compilation of the result of intensive research in contemporary politics. With the use of text and visual language, the author portrays the most iconic political moments not only from Brexit, Europe, United States (Donald Trump) but also from the world in general. Politics Design emphasises the importance of the political stamps in human history and identity.

Signs Of Fingerprints and the Art of Handwriting is a retrospective of the artistry and craftsmanship of the Artist Graphic Designer Carlos Simpson from the London United Kingdom. All the images in the book are original with carefully selected fonts which represent in the Author opinion the traditional Western Alphabet in a way that the difference can be analyzed between fonts so that when you scan through the pages you are aware of the element variation from font to font and that every mark can express different messages and feelings. In this highly recommended book, the handwriting line drawings were used mostly raw materials to represent fingerprints to emphasize the idea of identity to better understand the relationship between typography and identity but also to create a manual that anyone interested in typography and handwriting can use as a reference.

Portraits Of The Self And Fingerprints "is an anthropological and philosophical study with the intention of better understanding first of all the Man/Woman and everything that surrounds him/her in order to understand my own existence as an individual and evolutionary matter.” What is and how to identify our identity in the digital age? To the point, that contemporary identification procedures tend to associate numbers with identity, fingerprints with signatures, and virtual traces with self-representations. In this book, the author uses fingerprints patterns, curves, shapes and biological lines to question, materialize and represent the popular conceptions of the self and human nature by positing the relation of both normal and abnormal conflict to consciousness and what we call reality. This is an indispensable work for the followers of Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud or Carl Jung.