About this design
Where the Memphis style comes from, and what it signals.
Memphis design, named for the Milan-based collective founded by Ettore Sottsass in 1981, rejected the minimalism of its era by covering every surface with pattern, primary color and geometric ornament. The Memphis theme takes those conventions and pushes them into a slide deck: chunky black-outlined blocks, hard offset shadows with no blur, small confetti shapes scattered near corners and a circular sticker badge on the title slide.
The palette is pink-red #FF5D73, teal #2EC4B6 and yellow #FFBF00 on cream #FFF6E9, with ink-black #1D1D1D for all borders and shadows. Every card has a 3px solid black border, 8 to 12px corner radius and a 6px-right, 6px-down black shadow. Headlines are set in heavy-weight Baloo 2 with one word highlighted by a solid color rectangle rotated minus 2 degrees sitting behind it like a marker stroke. List cards alternate fill colors and rotate about plus or minus 1 degree.
Use it when the room needs to wake up, when the brand already has color, or when the subject benefits from looking like someone had fun designing it.
Use it for
- Consumer brand growth reviews and marketing all-hands
- Creative agency new-business pitches
- Team kick-off and planning sessions that need energy
- D2C startup pitch decks targeting retail or lifestyle investors
Skip it for
- Financial reports or legal briefings; the offset shadows and rotating cards undermine credibility in those contexts
- Print handouts, where the cream background and thick borders consume toner
- Dense text slides; the decorative layer competes with more than three lines of body copy
The slide design prompt
This is the exact text that gets sent to your AI.
Create a presentation in Memphis design style, the 'Memphis' theme. Background: cream (#FFF6E9). Palette: pink-red (#FF5D73), teal (#2EC4B6), yellow (#FFBF00) and ink black (#1D1D1D). Every card, button and bar is a chunky block with a 3px solid black border, 8 to 12px corner radius, and a hard offset shadow: 6px right, 6px down, solid black, zero blur. Typography: headlines in chunky 'Baloo 2', body in 'Nunito' (both Google Fonts). Headlines: heavy weight, with exactly one word highlighted by a solid color rectangle rotated about minus 2 degrees sitting behind it like a marker stroke. Cards in lists alternate fill colors and rotate alternately about plus and minus 1 degree. Scatter a few small geometric confetti shapes (an outlined circle, a solid triangle, a zigzag squiggle) near corners, never behind text. Charts: color-filled bars with black outlines and offset shadows. Add one rotated circular sticker badge with a black border somewhere on the title slide. Strictly avoid: gradients, soft shadows, thin hairlines, muted colors, 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 Memphis 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 Memphis 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 Memphis presentation, exportable as PowerPoint or PDF.
Common questions
Working with the Memphis slide design prompt in practice.
