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80 entries, 188 steal-notes — 85 by hand, 103 model drafts. Every entry answers: where is it from, what family is it, and what would you steal? 20 results have public source URLs; source correspondence awaits human review.

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A nation that enslaves another cannot itself be free

Editorial · poster · via V&A Collections

Steal · grid/layoutmodel draft
The page is divided into three horizontal bands of unequal height: top green band (map and two photos), middle white band (crowd and camera), bottom green band (title only). The middle band is the largest and contains the single focal object (camera lens) that overlaps both green fields.
Steal · typographymodel draft
The title line is set in a condensed sans, all caps, and sized so its length exactly matches the width of the bottom green band. Letter-spacing is uniform and tight; the type colour is black on green so it reads as a fourth value rather than as text.

Original: 1979-1980

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Original: 1979-1980. Source verification: pending review.

Recorded rights label: private-reference-only. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.

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Provenance & takedown

Publicly sourced references link to an original; private or concept examples are labelled separately. All referenced work belongs to its creators. What this vault adds — and what it is for — is the commentary: the steal-notes are the content, not the pixels. Notes are written by hand unless their card says otherwise; a model draft is always labelled. Study use only.

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Zimbabwe — One Enemy: Imperialism

Print-Tech Paper · poster · via V&A Collections

Steal · typographymodel draft
Two voices and nothing between them: enormous condensed bold sans for the two headlines that bracket the poster top and bottom, and typewriter monospace for every word of body copy. No intermediate sizes, no third face. The absence of a middle tier is what makes both ends read as deliberate.
Steal · grid/layoutmodel draft
Body-text measures are keyed to the width of the photo band directly above them, not to a uniform column — so the text grid changes width three times down the page while staying locked to the images. Steal for image-heavy articles: set caption measure from the figure it belongs to.
Steal · texture/materialmodel draft
Emphasis is carried entirely by underline, because a typewriter has nothing else — no bold, no italic in the body at all. Attributions are underlined; that is the only mechanism. Adopting the constraint forces you to earn emphasis rather than sprinkle it.
Steal · copywritingmodel draft
Every quotation carries its attribution underlined on the same line, immediately after the claim. Source-adjacent-to-assertion, never footnoted away. Use it wherever credibility is the argument — the citation belongs where the eye already is.

Fonts: condensed grotesque, typewriter monospace · Original: Poster Collective, Tolmers Square

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Source & usage rights

Original: Poster Collective, Tolmers Square. Work date: ca. 1977. Primary metadata checked 2026-10-01. V&A API O117445 title and brief description identify the double-sided poster. Capture correspondence and reproduction rights remain unverified.

Recorded rights label: V&A Collections. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.

Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.

Captured: 2026-08-02. Capture does not establish source verification.

Toulouse-Lautrec — Moulin Rouge: La Goulue

Editorial · poster · via Art Institute of Chicago

Steal · colormodel draft
Five flat values and no shading anywhere: black silhouette crowd behind, the lit cream subject in the middle, a large desaturated grey cut-out figure in front. Depth is built purely by value separation and overlap — the nearest figure is the dullest, the subject the brightest. Invert the usual instinct to make foreground elements the most saturated.
Steal · typographymodel draft
'MOULIN ROUGE' is repeated three times on stacked lines with one oversized red 'M' spanning all three as a shared initial. Repetition used as texture rather than emphasis — the name becomes a pattern block. Works for a hero wordmark: set the word three times, let one letter run the full stack height.
Steal · grid/layoutmodel draft
There is no grid. Type sits in four clusters at four different scales, placed wherever the illustration leaves room, and the foreground figure crops through the bottom headline so image and lettering interlock instead of occupying separate bands. Steal for editorial hero art: let one element break the type's bounding box.

Fonts: hand-lettered condensed sans · Original: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

CC0 · Art Institute of Chicago

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Original: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Work date: 1891. Primary metadata checked 2026-10-01. Art Institute API artwork 82287 matches title, artist and date; API marks the museum image public domain. Capture correspondence and reproduction rights remain unverified.

Recorded rights label: CC0 · Art Institute of Chicago. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.

Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.

Captured: 2026-08-02. Capture does not establish source verification.

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A nation that enslaves another cannot itself be free

Political Poster Show 1977

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Self-Portrait

Reine de Joie

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Zimbabwe — One Enemy: Imperialism

Toulouse-Lautrec — Moulin Rouge: La Goulue

Museum für Gestaltung poster archive

Herbert Bayer: Universal Alphabet & 1926 Bauhaus Catalog