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Eine SKILL.md (die Anleitung) + eine Startvorlage. Eine Vorschau:

Red Black Zine Deck

When to use

• You're presenting something with attitude — a punk project, an indie launch, a manifesto, a community talk — and a corporate template would kill it
• Your deck needs to feel handmade and urgent: photocopied flyers, cut-and-paste letters, marker annotations
• You're making slides for a zine fair, a DIY workshop, a gig poster talk, or any room where polish reads as insincere
• A standard deck has flattened your message into identical bullet slides and you need each slide to land like a page torn from a fanzine
• You want a deck that also works printed and photocopied in black and white — the red becomes black, the design still holds

Workflow

1. Pick the message and the arc (input: topic → output: slide outline)
   A zine deck is a rant with structure: write the one thing the audience must walk away believing, then outline 8–14 slides that build to it — opener (the provocation), three to five evidence or story slides, one slide that says the quiet part loud, and a closer with the ask. One idea per slide, in as few words as you can manage: a zine slide with a paragraph is a zine slide nobody reads. If a slide needs more than 25 words, it needs to be two slides or a handout.
2. Set the zine system (input: outline → output: style rules)
   Three colors only: paper white (or off-white), true black, and one loud red. Rules: black is the structure (borders, bars, rules, body text), red is the emphasis (headlines, underlines, circles, arrows — never whole paragraphs), white is the breathing room. Type: one heavy condensed display face for headlines (all caps, tight, sometimes slightly rotated), one plain readable face for the few body lines. Texture: halftone dots, photocopy grain, and torn-paper edges as background seasoning at low strength — never under text. Write the rules down before building slide one; a zine deck with five different reds is a mess, not a style.
3. Lay out each slide like a page (input: style rules + outline → output: slides)
   Build each slide as a fanzine page, not a template fill: a giant headline ripped across the top or diagonally, one image or one block of short text, and a red annotation — a circle, an arrow, a hand-written-style note — pointing at the thing that matters. Vary the layouts deliberately: full-bleed headline, split page, collage corner, one-word slide. Keep one anchor consistent (same footer strip, same page number corner, same red rule) so the variety reads as a system, not chaos. Leave real white space on every slide; a zine page crammed edge to edge is a wall, not a shout.
4. Add texture without killing legibility (input: slides → output: finished slides)
   Texture is the last layer, not the first: photocopy grain, halftone dots, torn edges, tape strips, and staple marks go on after the layout works in flat color. Test every slide by asking: can I read the headline in two seconds at the back of the room? If the grain, the rotation, or the collage gets in the way, pull it back — a zine that can't be read is a poster for nobody. Check the red: it must stay vivid against both white and black, and every slide must still work photocopied to pure black and white (print one page and copy it to prove it).
5. Export and print check (input: finished slides → output: verified deck)
   Export as PDF (for presenting and printing) plus the slide file in an editable format. Then do the photocopy test: print the deck, photocopy one dark slide and one light slide, and confirm both still read. Check the deck on a projector too — reds shift wildly between screens, so verify the red on the actual display if you can. Include a final slide with credits and sources: zine culture credits its lifts, and a deck that borrows images or quotes should say where they came from.

Vorschau der Startvorlage

Red Black Zine Deck — Build Template

A rant with structure. Fill this in before building slide one.

Message + arc

One thing the audience must walk away believing: {one sentence}

The ask (final slide): {what you want them to do}

Slide outline (8–14 slides, one idea each):

Zine system (write it down, then obey it)

• Colors (3 only): white {paper white / off-white #___} · black #___ · red #___ (one red!)
• Red role: emphasis only — headlines, circles, arrows, underlines. Never whole paragraphs.
• Black role: structure — borders, bars, rules, body text.
• Display type: {heavy condensed face, ALL CAPS, tight, slight rotation OK}

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