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.
...Some of the brands I’ve built for
Wi-Fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people.
My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer.
I’m not anti-social, I’m just not user-friendly.
It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
The population of Earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called LinkedIn.
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
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.
Thanks to the internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.
If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.
We’re not like other design agencies.
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.
Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.
Life is too short to remove USB safely.
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
What did people do when they went to the bathroom before smart phones?
I don’t know what “Java” is, but I let it do whatever it wants to my computer. I feel like such a slut.
Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
If brute force doesn’t solve your problems, then you aren’t using enough.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.