About this design
Where the Collage style comes from, and what it signals.
Collage is a studio-table aesthetic: warm paper stock (#EFEBE3), paper shapes with torn jagged edges, translucent tape strips holding pieces at a slight angle, and halftone dot patches spread across the surface like a printing artifact placed on purpose. The design draws from zine culture and graphic arts education rather than digital slide templates.
Each headline word sits on its own paper strip, rotated between -3 and 3 degrees and stacked with slight overlaps. The colored blocks use CSS clip-path polygons to fake torn edges, appearing in red #E2574C, teal #2A9D8F, mustard #E9C46A, and ink blue #264653. Bricolage Grotesque handles the large headline type; Work Sans carries body copy. Text on mustard is ink #2B2722; on every other color it is white.
Each rotation, overlap, and tape placement is intentional. This is not roughness for its own sake; the visual system holds to a consistent logic. Creative studios, design portfolios, branding pitches, and talks where the presenter wants the deck to reflect hands-on craft are the right home for it.
Use it for
- Creative studio and design portfolio presentations
- Branding and identity project pitches
- Educational workshops on visual communication
- Cultural and arts organization fundraisers
- Agency credentials and capabilities decks
Skip it for
- Financial reporting or investor data rooms; torn-paper shapes undermine numeric precision
- Large-room conference presentations where the fine tape-and-halftone details will not read at distance
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in the 'Collage' theme, a cut-paper collage. Background: warm paper (#EFEBE3); ink text #2B2722. Typography: headlines in bold 'Bricolage Grotesque' with body copy in 'Work Sans' (both Google Fonts); each headline word sits on its own paper strip, rotated between -3 and 3 degrees, stacked with slight overlaps and staggered indents. Paper shapes: blocks in muted brights (red #E2574C, teal #2A9D8F, mustard #E9C46A, ink blue #264653) with torn edges drawn as jagged CSS clip-path polygons, never clean rectangles. Signature motifs: translucent white tape strips (about 84x22px, rotated near 40 degrees, 50% opacity) pinning pieces at corners; one halftone patch per slide made of small ink dots (radial-gradient, 11px grid, 22% opacity). Text on mustard is ink #2B2722, on every other color it is white. Body copy sits in ink on the paper background or on white torn sheets. Strictly avoid: gradients, drop shadows, clean rectangles for colored shapes, photographs, a fifth accent color, perfectly straight alignment. 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 Collage 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 Collage 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 Collage presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Collage slide design prompt in practice.
