19 Crimes Personalisation
Personalisation tool and label printer for wine brand 19 Crimes.
Hey there, I’m Alex Bimpson
I’m a web developer, designer, photographer, movie fanatic, music lover, snow sports addict and general tech enthusiast.
I work at Kerve Creative
I’ve been a senior developer at Kerve Creative for over a decade, delivering dozens of projects for many high profile brands.
I studied at the University of Bath
I graduated in 2011 with a BSc in Architecture, before deciding to instead pursue my love of web design and development.
Some of my favourite projects
Smirnoff Taste Exchange
Interactive animated big screen used at a series of pop-up events.
Matter
Creative horizontal-scrolling portfolio site for a product design agency.
Huawei Rubik’s Cube
Interactive AI mobile game connected in real-time to a 4m tall digital Rubik’s cube.
Lego: Battle for Gotham City
Fast-paced game played by shooting targets across 4 TV screens from an iPod Touch.
MoodTree @ D&AD
Design, engineering and manufacture of an interactive "Twitter tree" installation.
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.
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We’re not like other design agencies.
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Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
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What did people do when they went to the bathroom before smart phones?
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The population of Earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called LinkedIn.
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Thanks to the internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.
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All I have to do to empty shopping carts online is click a button. It’s way easier than the grocery store, where I have to knock them over.
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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
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My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
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To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer.
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.
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Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.
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It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
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Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
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Life is too short to remove USB safely.
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Wi-Fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people.
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
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Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
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The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
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Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0
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If brute force doesn’t solve your problems, then you aren’t using enough.
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Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
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I’m not anti-social, I’m just not user-friendly.
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There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
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Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
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After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs. Take one down, patch it around, 117 little bugs in the code.
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