About this design
Where the Bauhaus style comes from, and what it signals.
The Bauhaus school ran from 1919 to 1933 in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin. This theme takes two of its best-known ideas. In 1923 Wassily Kandinsky asked students to match the three primary colors to three basic forms, and the answers settled on a yellow triangle, a red square and a blue circle. Herbert Bayer later drew a universal alphabet with no capital letters, arguing that one case was enough.
The prompt turns both ideas into rules. A red #d62828 square marks the key point, a blue #1f4e9c circle marks data, and a yellow #f2b705 triangle points to what happens next, so your audience learns the code within a few slides. Slides sit on paper #ebe8e1 with black #1a1a1a bars for structure. League Spartan, a geometric sans in the Futura lineage, sets every word in lowercase, from 150px titles down to 12px source lines.
Use it for design and architecture talks, furniture and product launches, museum pitches and agency credentials. The small palette and hard grid keep an argument disciplined, and the shape code tells your audience at a glance which slides carry data and which carry next steps.
Use it for
- Design, architecture and typography talks about modernism
- Product and furniture launches where form and function are the story
- Museum, gallery and exhibition pitches
- Agency and studio credentials decks that need a strong visual system
- Workshops and lectures where a simple visual code helps people follow along
Skip it for
- Type-only decks with no graphic shapes; Basel keeps the Swiss poster discipline without geometry
- Soft brand stories or wellness decks; Oat or Hearth set a calmer register
- Operating reviews with several charts per slide; Benchmark or Operator handle that density
The presentation design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Bauhaus' theme, a flat, primary-color composition system after the 1920s Bauhaus school. Background: warm paper gray (#ebe8e1) on every slide; white (#ffffff) only as text on red. Typography: 'League Spartan' (Google Fonts) for everything: headlines in weights 700 to 900 at 56 to 150px with tight 0.9 leading and -0.02em tracking, body in 400 to 500 at 18 to 25px in black (#1a1a1a), captions and sources at 12 to 15px in warm gray (#5c5a55). Every word is lowercase, including titles, names, labels and chart text, after Herbert Bayer's universal alphabet; never use a capital letter. The signature is Kandinsky's form-color correspondence used as a meaning system: a red (#d62828) square marks emphasis or the key point, a blue (#1f4e9c) circle marks data and facts, a yellow (#f2b705) triangle marks direction and next steps. Never put a color on the wrong shape. Shapes are large, flat and hard-edged, overlap one another and bleed off the slide edges; black (#1a1a1a) bars 12 to 24px thick are the structure, underlining titles or dividing columns. Layouts are asymmetric and left-aligned with 56px outer margins; one short label per deck may run vertically along the left edge, rotated 90 degrees. Title slide: a lowercase title at 120 to 150px top-left, a subtitle at 56 to 64px, an 18px black bar, a one-line context, and a composition of one blue circle bleeding off the top right, a red square overlapping it and a yellow triangle. Agenda: a numbered list of 3 to 5 items with 54px black numerals between 4px black rules, each item marked by the shape of its content type. Statement slides: one short phrase in white at about 60px set inside a large red square, a supporting sentence beside it, and black bars framing it. Data slides: blue circles sized by area as a bubble chart, or blue bars, on an 8px black baseline, with white values inside and lowercase labels beneath; the one data point that proves the title gets a small red square marker; a source line sits under the chart. Comparison slides: three columns headed by a circle, a square and a triangle (facts, key point, action), divided by 4px black rules under a 12px black bar. Closing slide: a giant yellow triangle pointing right into the next step, set at about 62px. Footer: deck name bottom-left in 12px #5c5a55 and a bold page number bottom-right. Strictly avoid: capital letters anywhere, serif or script fonts, gradients, drop shadows, rounded rectangles, pastel tints, photographs, texture or grain overlays, colors beyond the three primaries plus black and paper, a shape in the wrong color, centered symmetrical layouts, outline icons, and shapes that carry no meaning. Use this theme for my slides. Ask me what the presentation is about first, then apply the theme to every slide.View this prompt and its data on GitHub
How to use this prompt
From copied text to a finished Bauhaus deck in four moves.
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Copy the prompt
Use the copy button, or open it pre-filled in Claude or ChatGPT with one click from the panel on this page.
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Tell the AI your topic
The prompt instructs the AI to ask what your presentation is about first. A sentence or a pasted outline is enough.
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Generate and iterate
Ask for more slides or swap a layout. The avoid list at the end of the prompt keeps Bauhaus on-style while the content changes.
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Or skip straight to a deck
SlideSpeak turns your topic or document into a finished Bauhaus presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Bauhaus presentation design prompt in practice.
