The Next Non-AI Generative Art Model is here. Prompt-Brush 2.0
Prompt-Brush 2.0
The Next Non-AI Generative Art Model
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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
The tool for seeing time. "Your belief that there must be a way to do it all means you flinch from making difficult decisions about what's truly worth your limited time." —Oliver Burkeman
The tool for seeing time
I made a simple app that shows you your entire life in weeks. Inspired by On Kawara, Tehching Hsieh, and the lists I keep losing.
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What awesome cover art! As excellent as the novel Annihilation. What a time for fungal weird fiction @pablodelcan.bsky.social
A few special things are on sale, including the Prompt-Brush 1.0 book, hats and zines. Use code SALE2025 for 15% off. Delcan.co
Prompt-Brush.com / Now available! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social
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
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...
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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...
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.
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
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.”
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.
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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.
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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.
Best book I read this year. By Meghan O’Gieblyn “God Human Animal Machine — Technology, Metaphor and The Search for Meaning”
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...
