Pablo Delcan — Delcan & Co.

Pablo Delcan is a graphic designer and art director from Spain. He started out designing book covers for Penguin Random House, then founded his own studio, Delcan & Company, in 2014. He is a longtime visual contributor to The New York Times, and from 2012 to 2022 he taught typography and design at the School of Visual Arts. In 2016 the Art Directors Club named him a Young Gun; a year later Forbes recognized him in its 30 Under 30 in Art & Style. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).

Delcan & Co. is a studio dedicated to experimentation and collaboration, with the mission of creating objects, designs and animations that are beautiful, timeless and that connect with people. Founded in 2014 in New York City, it now operates from a two-story barn in the rolling hills of the Catskills.

Specialties

• Editorial illustration
• Editorial art direction
• Book cover design
• Magazine design and art direction
• Typography and lettering
• Logo and brand identity design
• Poster design
• Title sequences and motion design
• Generative art
• Graphic design

Services

• Editorial illustration & art direction
• Book cover & editorial design
• Brand identity & logo design
• Typography & custom lettering
• Title sequences & motion design
• Poster design

Selected clients

• The New York Times
• Bloomberg
• Apple
• The New Yorker
• TIME
• Nike
• Penguin Random House
• The Washington Post
• Spotify
• Google
• The Atlantic
• Wired
• The Guardian
• Simon & Schuster

Awards

• Forbes 30 Under 30 (2017)
• ADC Young Guns 14
• SPD Gold Medal 2019 — Best Cover
• Society of Illustrators Gold Medal 2018
• Communication Arts 2019
• Graphis Poster 2019
• D&AD Pencil 2019
• American Illustration (AI37, AI38)
• Art Directors Club Bronze Cube 2013
• Type Directors Club (2012, 2013)

Writing

• “I’m Just a Human Sitting in Front of a Stack of Blank Paper, Sketching as Fast as I Can” — The New York Times, Opinion (2024)

Selected press

• Artnet News — How Pablo Delcan went viral with non-A.I. image generation
• Fast Company — Prompt Brush is like Midjourney, but human
• Forbes — A human “non-AI generative art model” is coming for you
• PRINT — Pablo Delcan’s non-A.I. art generator goes viral
• Creative Review — Pablo Delcan’s non-AI generative art model
• It’s Nice That — Prompt Brush 2.0 — everyone becomes a non-AI artist
• CNN Politics — Magazine covers tell the story of US politics in 2018
• SVA — A Good Egg: on his new subway poster
• It’s Nice That — Otherworldly graphic design from Minorca

Contact

Pablo@Delcan.Co · Callicoon, New York · Est. 2014 · Member, AGI