Denis Bakulin

A hub of my own tools for glitch and generative graphics, running in the browser. Each one is a reproducible engine rather than a one-off effect. The first tool appeared in June, the hub went live at the end of August.

• particle-studioraster vector params → raster params
• glitch-studioraster mask params → raster params
• display-optics-studioraster motion mask params → raster params
• micrographics-generatorparams → vector raster params
• pixel-synthparams → raster motion params
• scan-motionraster params → raster params
• showreelraster motion params → raster params
• glitchyartv0.2.1

The bank won Best User/Customer Experience Initiative for Business at the Banking Tech Awards USA in New York — for the redesign my team and I had been carrying since 2024. The global edition of the awards shortlisted the bank in two categories: Best Customer Experience Initiative for Business and Best Use of Technology in SME Banking.

The first Glitch Cult festival. I was on the organising committee and the jury — from the open call and the selection to four days of programme, with a members' exhibition alongside. The festival is independent and not affiliated with /'fu:bar/.

In April I started Glitchy Brain, my own system of AI agents for design work. In June a personal workbench grew out of it — Design Brain: layout critique against a rule base, specs for code, motion breakdowns. This timeline was assembled on it.

I gathered my poems on a site of their own, as visual objects in their own right. Before that they lived wherever they could: a district newspaper, a rap forum, stihi.ru, litprom. Now they have one home.

The sixth edition; the exhibition published Honey with its own curatorial note.

We announced the first Glitch Cult festival, together with AKC Attack in Zagreb, and opened the call. Applications came in until early January: video, images, installations, performances.

I turned the bank's design system into a configurable one: a single product under different brands. A control panel with a live preview assembles a theme from colour schemes, layouts and typefaces; a plugin exports tokens into code. The bank itself now lives on it — and we rebuilt the type system and library on live production, without stopping releases.

Three works selected for the studio's second-anniversary show in New York.

Zagreb again — POGON Jedinstvo — plus online and the GAG gallery in Taipei. The piece is No. 243, Round dates, shown there as Procrastination.

The fifth edition of the Brazilian exhibition; my piece was Back To The Underground.

The first phase of the bank platform's redesign: web, iOS and Android at once — a structural rebuild, not a new skin. Two years later this work brought the bank an award.

He worked on complex modules such as money movement, account features, onboarding, and more.

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Seven of my works were selected for the exhibition Error in Control.

My first exhibition: /'fu:bar/ in Zagreb — offline at MaMa and online until the end of the year. The exposition lists my piece Inner emigration and, as a separate line, a joint collection with thealienarms.

An international online exhibition from Brazil; my piece in the fourth edition was Follow me!

I took full ownership of design at the bank and built the team: most of its designers joined as juniors and grew up here. This role is what made the redesign of the entire platform possible a year later.

I've seen him first hand evolve into a true leader when it comes to UI/UX.

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He always thinks ahead and pays attention to small details, while perfectly seeing the whole picture.

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The collective grew out of correspondence between artists who kept meeting at the same glitch exhibitions. Its founder is thealienarms; I was among the first members and have been helping build it ever since.

I started Glitchy Pixels: glitch works assembled by hand, each published under its own number, “N / ∞”. The device came out of my visual poems of 2018; this April it became a practice of its own.

100% made by hand · every source photo is mine or Lena's

Lena and I got married.

By a funny coincidence, a year before our own wedding I designed the MVP of a turnkey-wedding service, Two Rings: brand, venue catalogue, the couple's dashboard, mobile app. The project froze after the hypothesis tests — and its case I later illustrated with our wedding photos.

A website for KRAYS, a development group from Voronezh: residential, commercial and administrative properties in Russia and abroad.

I joined Arival Bank — a digital bank for businesses, licensed in Puerto Rico and built for tech startups, digital companies and international trade. Some of the people building it are my fellow students from the computer science faculty: this is where the university line and the design line finally meet.

With Denis, it was always easy to directly say what you like and what you don't: he is more interested in the result than in his own emotions.

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A contract: a PDM system for a major oil-and-gas developer that controls and automates the key processes of capital construction. I shaped the concept with the stakeholders and we reached an MVP fast; some features I proposed shipped. Leaving, I handed the work to a designer I had trained myself.

Product designer in Moscow, on NeuroAfimall: navigation for Afimall City, the mall at the heart of Moscow City that links its towers, the metro and the Expocentre. I designed the smart screens and kiosks that guide people through the building and pass content to their phones, the map that ties them together, and a design system for it all.

Five works with my poems set over processed portraits: screen noise, a game menu reading New game / Load game, blurred letters. The same device became Glitchy Pixels four years later — for me, glitch started not with an image but with words.

UI/UX designer at a Voronezh agency. Clients included the engineering company PGS Project, the Khamin Group with its City-Park Grad mall and Event-Hall concert venue, the Moskovsky Prospekt mall, and the promo company Victory Team.

I was in the founding line-up of Milkshake, a Voronezh promo group behind the Geocult party series — as a co-organiser and promoter. Each party had its own theme, from Equilibrium to Antiutopia. In the same years I worked the door at the clubs Dom, Nihilist and BKWSK.

Designer in the institute's marketing department: website design and tech support, social media, print ads, the student magazine. In 2017 I fully reworked the brand identity; by the rector's reference, it stayed in use after I left. I also helped run the institute’s large joint events with the Voda entertainment complex and the club Aura.

User support at the Voronezh studio: I joined as a first-line junior, grew into the second line and then got a project of my own — The Lord of the Rings Online. All alongside university and freelance work, night shifts included.

On hip-hop.ru I released two Vagabund albums online on the same day: Schokk's S Bolshoy Dorogi and The Wandering Jew — OxxxymironMiron reading a new track from the album. 30 Oct 2013, from my Instagram.'s debut, now counted among the most important releases in Russian rap. I ran the threads for his other releases too. Later I occasionally gave Schokk my own poems for his albums.

Programming and mathematics instead of a design school: I learned design on my own, on client work and on the job. Alongside: freelance work and a job in user support at Mail.Ru Games. Among my fellow students were the people I would start building a bank with a few years later.

From 2009 I moderated the designers' section of hip-hop.ru, the largest Russian rap forum, together with Pokras Lampas. In parallel, from its founding until 2014, I moderated the Oxxxymiron community on VK — more than half a million people today.

Two years after the internet arrived at home, our school team took third place at Internet and Us, an interregional youth festival in Voronezh. First a remote round — a team site, a software product, a disc design — then a three-day final: an interactive poster, live web search, and an “Extreme Internet” round with GPRS navigators.

A forum that grew into a Voronezh city portal — with file sharing, offline meetups, its own quiz team and several FTP servers, one of them hosted on my home computer over ADSL. I was a co-founder and ran tech support — for the first two years from Pavlovsk, before I moved to Voronezh to study.

I grew up in Pavlovsk, in the Voronezh region, reading voraciously from the age of three — at six, a local newspaper wrote about it. At nine came my first publication: four poems in the district paper, two more in 2003. In June 2010 I finished school with a gold medal and started writing poetry in earnest.