Pablo Delcan
@pablodelcan.bsky.social
Visual contributor to @nytimes / Founder of Prompt-Brush 1.0 The First Non-AI Art Model / AGI member / Designer at Stripe Press / Teaching AI tools for designers @ SVA
Prompt-Brush.com / Now available! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Prompt-Brush.com / Now available! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social
Prompt-Brush.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Prompt-Brush.com
Prompt-Brush.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Prompt-Brush.com
It's almost here. The Prompt-Brush 1.0 book ships next week.
After more than 1700 drawings, it's finally about to land in readers' hands. If you'd like to be among the first, pre-orders are open now — and they make a huge ditterence. Prompt-brush.com
After more than 1700 drawings, it's finally about to land in readers' hands. If you'd like to be among the first, pre-orders are open now — and they make a huge ditterence. Prompt-brush.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's almost here. The Prompt-Brush 1.0 book ships next week.
After more than 1700 drawings, it's finally about to land in readers' hands. If you'd like to be among the first, pre-orders are open now — and they make a huge ditterence. Prompt-brush.com
After more than 1700 drawings, it's finally about to land in readers' hands. If you'd like to be among the first, pre-orders are open now — and they make a huge ditterence. Prompt-brush.com
Sharing a Q+A with Steven Heller, for the Print Magazine Daily Heller, on Substack. We talked about Prompt-Brush 1.0, drawing like a machine, and what it means to make “human” work in the age of AI. open.substack.com/pub/pablodel...
The Robot Impersonator
In the latest edition of The Daily Heller, I had the pleasure of speaking with Steven Heller about Prompt-Brush 1.0—the book and the project that has consumed the past two years of my life and reshape...
open.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sharing a Q+A with Steven Heller, for the Print Magazine Daily Heller, on Substack. We talked about Prompt-Brush 1.0, drawing like a machine, and what it means to make “human” work in the age of AI. open.substack.com/pub/pablodel...
My new book just arrived—and it’s up for pre-order!
If you’ve followed this project, now’s the time. Every early order helps! www.amazon.com/Prompt-Brush...
If you’ve followed this project, now’s the time. Every early order helps! www.amazon.com/Prompt-Brush...
August 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
My new book just arrived—and it’s up for pre-order!
If you’ve followed this project, now’s the time. Every early order helps! www.amazon.com/Prompt-Brush...
If you’ve followed this project, now’s the time. Every early order helps! www.amazon.com/Prompt-Brush...
The Subway Poster / I wrote about a drawing in the NYC subway—and the strange ways people responded to it. open.substack.com/pub/pablodel...
June 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The Subway Poster / I wrote about a drawing in the NYC subway—and the strange ways people responded to it. open.substack.com/pub/pablodel...
A couple new book cover designs for Verso Books and New Directions.
June 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A couple new book cover designs for Verso Books and New Directions.
More things to ask the machine. ⬇️
The Game
More things to ask the machine.
substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
More things to ask the machine. ⬇️
March 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Prompt-Brush.com / Pre-order the book!
March 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Prompt-Brush.com / Pre-order the book!
Cover for @nymag.com / American Wreckage / A wildly destructive month that may look mild in hindsight / a collaboration with Tom Alberty and Danielle Del Plato
February 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Cover for @nymag.com / American Wreckage / A wildly destructive month that may look mild in hindsight / a collaboration with Tom Alberty and Danielle Del Plato
Prompt-Brush 1.0 is going to be a book! Pre-order yours at www.prompt-brush.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Prompt-Brush 1.0 is going to be a book! Pre-order yours at www.prompt-brush.com
Illustration for the NYTimes article “What if No One Misses TikTok?”By @kevinroose.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/t...
January 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Illustration for the NYTimes article “What if No One Misses TikTok?”By @kevinroose.com www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/t...
Cover image and animation for the NYTimes Sunday Business. “She Is in Love With ChatGPT / A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.”
January 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Cover image and animation for the NYTimes Sunday Business. “She Is in Love With ChatGPT / A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.”
Face 1.0 zine at the Delcan.co/Store $12 / From the new desktop application Face 1.0 that generates a unique face every time you press one button. 170mm x 250mm / printed on 45gsm salmon paper stock. Includes the Face 1.0 desktop application for your own use.
January 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Face 1.0 zine at the Delcan.co/Store $12 / From the new desktop application Face 1.0 that generates a unique face every time you press one button. 170mm x 250mm / printed on 45gsm salmon paper stock. Includes the Face 1.0 desktop application for your own use.
New image for the John McWhorter column with a photograph of Eddie Cantor / also, if you have an hour to spare today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHw_...
Opinion | Why Silent Film Still Speaks Volumes
The old movies have a great deal to say, and linguistics can explain why.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:28 PM
New image for the John McWhorter column with a photograph of Eddie Cantor / also, if you have an hour to spare today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHw_...
The Prompt-Brush 1.0 project made it to the top 50 most read articles of @itsnicethat.com.web.brid.gy this year! You can read it here:
Enter a prompt and this “non-AI artist” will render it as an artwork
What started as a joke on social media has turned into a queue of over a 1000 prompts for Pablo Delcan, the artist behind Prompt Brush.
www.itsnicethat.com
December 19, 2024 at 6:44 PM
The Prompt-Brush 1.0 project made it to the top 50 most read articles of @itsnicethat.com.web.brid.gy this year! You can read it here:
A face by Alexander Calder at SF MOMA.
December 19, 2024 at 12:58 AM
A face by Alexander Calder at SF MOMA.
Faces 1.0 / I developed a new desktop application that generates a unique face every time you click on a pink button. It’s a completely useless yet amazing program. I’ve spent 10 minutes this morning staring at these faces, and I won’t get that time back.
December 17, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Faces 1.0 / I developed a new desktop application that generates a unique face every time you click on a pink button. It’s a completely useless yet amazing program. I’ve spent 10 minutes this morning staring at these faces, and I won’t get that time back.
“The Googly Eye Bandit”
Googly Eyes Placed on Sculptures Follow Residents in this Oregon City
The eyes were attached to eight installations, to the delight of residents. City officials, who lamented the cost of repairs, were less amused.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:48 PM
“The Googly Eye Bandit”
Best book I read this year. By Meghan O’Gieblyn “God Human Animal Machine — Technology, Metaphor and The Search for Meaning”
December 15, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Best book I read this year. By Meghan O’Gieblyn “God Human Animal Machine — Technology, Metaphor and The Search for Meaning”
A walk through San Francisco’s Chinatown
December 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM
A walk through San Francisco’s Chinatown
Best Book Covers of 2024
The Best Book Covers of 2024
A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Best Book Covers of 2024
New cover for the @nytmag / The Most Dangerous Game / How Nuclear Escalation Spirals Out of Control / written by William Langewiesche / in collaboration with Danielle Del Plato, Gail Bichler and Claudia Rubin. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/m...
December 9, 2024 at 1:06 PM
New cover for the @nytmag / The Most Dangerous Game / How Nuclear Escalation Spirals Out of Control / written by William Langewiesche / in collaboration with Danielle Del Plato, Gail Bichler and Claudia Rubin. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/m...