Pablo Delcan
pablodelcan.bsky.social
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
September 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Prompt-Brush.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:10 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
September 2, 2025 at 7:20 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...
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
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...
August 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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
A couple new book cover designs for Verso Books and New Directions.
June 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
More things to ask the machine. ⬇️
The Game
More things to ask the machine.
substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
March 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Prompt-Brush.com / Pre-order the book!
March 4, 2025 at 11:49 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
February 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
A face by Alexander Calder at SF MOMA.
December 19, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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
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
A walk through San Francisco’s Chinatown
December 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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
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