
GPT Image 2 Is Good. But Is It Nano Good?
From Midjourney Fast Hours by Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn
April 26, 2026 · 1h 6m · Season 3 · Episode 8
About this episode
Drew and Rory discuss the capabilities of GPT-Image-2 and its impact on design and creativity.
Fast Hours has entered the witness protection program. Same Drew. Same Rory. But fewer syllables and more chaos.In this episode, Drew Brucker and Rory Flynn officially drop “Midjourney” from the podcast name and relaunch as Fast Hours, a broader home for the creative AI ecosystem: image models, video models, LLMs, vibe coding, Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and whatever tool drops five minutes after they hit publish. Naturally, the rebrand lasts about four minutes before they’re elbows-deep in GPT-Image-2, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT image model that quietly showed up and immediately started making designers question their calendar, career choices, and relationship with kerning.The big topic: GPT-Image-2 is shockingly good with text, typography, brand systems, visual decks, product mockups, and multi-image outputs. Rory walks through how he used ChatGPT and Claude to create a custom typeface from visual references, generate a premium typography presentation, extract geometry, and turn the whole thing into usable font files. Drew then shows how he turned his own handwriting into a working typeface, because apparently “personal brand” now includes making your lowercase g file a tax…
People in this episode
Hosts: Drew Brucker, Rory Flynn
Topics covered
- AI creativity
- typography
- image models
- design tools
- branding
- human judgment in AI
Keywords
- GPT-Image-2
- AI design
- typography
- ChatGPT
- creative tools
- branding
- Midjourney
Mentioned in this episode
Products: GPT-Image-2, ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Nano
Books & works: Fast Hours
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