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k1k101-sims · 1 year ago

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Kiki's Chaotic Legacy Challenge rules!

Now that I've proofread and updated all the Generations for my legacy, here's the official post.

I do plan on writing down a Sims 3 version eventually too, so stay tuned for that.

If anyone is interested in trying this legacy, please use the #KikisChaoticLegacy or #ChaoticLegacy. I'd love to see people play this and see their experiences.

As the title picture says, this has multiple endings. Each generation you have two main choices, each choices can affect in some ways the next generation. Eventually this all snowballs, and comes to a finally in a BIG 6 different Generation option for the last Gen.

Without further ado, here's the link to the official page of the rules, but you can also see the Generational rules below! Each picture that marks the Generations will have a link to their respective Generations as well

Color Prompt:

Forest Green

(With Sorbet Remix palette) Honeydew and Avocado

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Traits: Animal Enthusiast, Self-Assured, Dance Machine

What is your main focus?

Focus on Self: [Lookbook inspo]

Aspiration: World-Famous Celebrity

Career: Writer (Author Branch), Freelance Writer or independent Author…

Must Master Writing and Dancing

Quirk: Try not to let any of your needs reach the orange or red. Your sim will be much more inclined towards Self-care in this route.

Focus on Others: [Lookbook inspo]

Aspiration: Eco Innovator

Career: Become a Gardener (Botanist)

Must Master Juice Fizzing and Gourmet Cooking

Quirk: Your sim will be much more inclined to tending to everything/one else before themselves, make it a habit to only tend to needs that are in the orange or red.

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Life Events:

Your Sim starts out in Sulani, living there their whole Young Adult life. You can move out, if you so wish, only after Collecting 10 (as a minimum) to all 13 seashells of the Seashell collection OR if you’re an Adult. — Since you must beachcomb to find shells, if you find buried treasure you may store them somewhere out of sight (like in a storage box or on a private display in the attic)

Fall In Love. Then tragically, have your lover die. Find a way to resurrect them and then marry them — If you chose Self resurrect them in one of the following manners: *Plead to the Reaper *Write a Book of Life before they die *Use the Wishing Well

— If you chose Others resurrect them in one of the following manners: *Giving them a Death Flower before they die *Ambrosia *Dedeathify (if you're a Mage)

Have a small pet (rodents, fish, sharks, piranhas, frogs, dust bunnies, chickens, cows, llamas, worms, Familiar, etc.) throughout your entire life.

Optional for the Others route, Mandatory for the Self route: Go out on your days off to dance, relax and mingle with the community.

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Color Prompt:

Yellow (With Sorbet Remix palette) Banana and Starfruit

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Traits: Genius, Childish, Jealous

What’s your focus?

Focus on Knowledge: [Lookbook inspo]

Aspiration: Chief of Mischief *Child Aspiration to complete: Whiz Kid

Career: Engineer (Computer Eng.) *You’re smart, but your childish side tends to get the best of you sometimes.

Master Research and Debate, and Mischief

Focus on Passion: [Lookbook inspo]

Aspiration: Party Animal *Child Aspiration to complete: Slumber Party Animal

Career: Interior Decorator (Your party guests tend to be your past clients)

Master Painting (to hang up in your home and your client’s homes)

Master Mixology (you tend to bartend in your parties)

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Life Events:

If 1st gen chose NOT to move away from Sulani * Be raised in Sulani, collecting Buried Treasures in your past time.

If 1st gen chose to move away * Have vacationed at some point (or many points, as a form of celebrating birthdays or good grades) in Sulani. * Find and take Buried Treasures as vacation trinkets.

Or, have 1st gen give away Buried Treasure trinkets to gen 2 as a housewarming gift when they eventually move out. * Either way, Buried Treasure must form part of the decor in your house * If you chose Passion, you can give away said Treasures to your Good/Best friends as gifts or if remodeling their house.

Always be the matchmaker with your other friends (always jealous of them) * If you choose Knowledge, you can choose to set them up, only to break them apart (letting your jealousy and habit for mischief overtake you). * How they go about this is up to you, will they sabotage the relationship by creating false rumors? ** Or will they try to seduce one of the two friends?

Finally, start dating someone in your line of work * if you chose Knowledge, it’s a co-worker; * if you chose Passion, its an ex-client now party guest

Have an affair with someone you met outside of work * If on the Knowledge route, this criteria can be fulfilled with seducing your set up friends, as mentioned in the previous objective Talk about drama!

Leave one of the two of your significant others at the altar, remaining with the other * If you want your Sim to be single at the end, you can even try to leave both people at the altar! *Just make sure you have the next heir with one of them before you dash their hopes and dreams. alright?

**If you have the Wedding Pack, plan a full fledged wedding, which makes it even more devastating when you call it off.

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Color Prompt:

Orange

(With Sorbet Remix palette) Orange Cream and Persimmon

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Traits: Good, Freegan, Lazy

What is your focus?

Focus on Community:

Aspiration: Joke Star *Child Aspiration to complete: Playtime Captain

Career: Fast-Food Restaurant, Entertainment (Comedian)

Master Comedy and Writing

Quirk: You’ll have to rely on dumpster diving, performing comedy on public lots and odd jobs to survive and furnish your home.

Focus on Others:

Aspiration: Beach Life *Complete the Scouts club as an Afterschool Activity

Career: Diver and Conservationist (Manager)

Master Logic and Photography…

Quirk: You love scenery pictures, taking at most 10-15 pictures a day. You like to sell these as a way to spread awareness on social media (and to make a quick buck). You can also rely on odd jobs to survive.

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Life Events:

Live in San Myshuno as a Young Adult and start a Snow globe collection as a hobby *If you chose Others, you could decide to move out to Sulani or Evergreen Harbor on an Off-The-Grid lot, only AFTER getting 11 or all 15 of the collection

This generation isn’t meant to have much money starting out, have them move into their apartment with no more than 250 simoleons. AFTER their first degree (see next objective below) *The reason to move out will be a falling out with Gen 2. Have them get into an argument that lowers the relationship to the red. * If Gen 2 was on the Knowledge route, or never got married, they can reconcile and become friends (though not anything higher) * If gen 2 was on the Passion route, you never reconcile.

You’re quite undecided on what to do with your life. You obtain 3 degrees throughout your life! — The first one you never actually use since you get stuck in a part time job after moving out on your own. — Afterwards you get a degree in the other career (from the focus you didn’t choose), * If on the Others route, it’d be a degree for the Entertainment career. *If on the Community route, it’d be a degree for the Conservation career. — Become unsatisfied after starting said career (after just one promotion) and go back to college to settle on the one you know in your heart is for you (assigned to your focus).

Never get married! — If on the Community focus, the next gen can be an alien baby or an accidental One-Night stand baby. — If on the Others focus, the next gen can be adopted or have a science baby with a Good Friend/Best friend. — Optional: Just because you’re not married, doesn’t mean you can’t have a relationship; you can, just be sure to never tie the knot. However, if you feel romance isn’t the calling card for your sim, you could have your closest of friends live with you helping you raise your child. YOU DECIDE! 😊 *If you have mods that allow Poly or Open Relationships, you can also go this route.

Obligatory for the next gen: Vacation at least once, with the heir, in Mt. Komorebi

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Color Prompt:

Purple

(With Sorbet Remix palette) Fig and Lavender

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Traits: Overachiever, Snob, Bro

What is your focus?

Focus on Passion:

Aspiration: Musical Genius *MUST have gotten the Responsible and Uncontrolled emotion Character Values as a YA

Entertainer (Musician) *Max a part-time job when a teen *Have fun with the musician career! Create a club to emulate a band, with the Get Together pack or mods, play at venues on your days off!

Specialize in playing the Piano *When you retire, you can Flower Arrange as a hobby

Focus on Self:

Aspiration: Fabulously Wealthy *MUST have gotten the Empathy and Argumentative Character Values as a YA

Doctor *Earn the college degree to help boost you in this career

As an adult, you like to travel and fall in love with the thrill of adventuring Selvadorada *Gain a High Archaeology skill and get the majority of the Ancient Omiscan Artifacts

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Life Events:

Because you’re so invested in your career you never have any close friends… The friends you do have, you keep at arm’s length. —This also includes your parent/s, child/ren and even your significant other if you have one —You only ever start reaching out when you’re an elder and retired. Only then can you have close friends. *If focusing on the Self: You can become close/best/friends only with close relatives, like siblings, children* and grandchildren*. (No aunts or distant cousins) ***Look to Gen 5 n 6 for specifics on that relationship *If focusing on Passion: You can become close/best/friends only with found family, like your spouse, friends, co-workers, bandmates, etc.

You fell in love with Mt. Komorebi since the first time you visited. So, when the time comes to move out, you decide to live there. *You visit the Komorebi festivals whenever you can (mostly, when it doesn’t conflict with your work schedule) and collect Simmies as souvenirs.

Your parents had an impact on you in terms of the impact you can have in your community. You vote every week and must enact at least 3 NAPs — If you chose Others in Gen 3, enact 3 of the following:

*Back to the Old Days *Clean Energy Production *Eco-Friendly Appliances *Green Gardening *Power Conservation *Self-Sufficiency *Upcycling Initiative *Water Conservation *We Wear Bags

— If you chose Community in Gen 3, enact 3 of the Following:

*Foodies Unite *Free Love *Fun-Loving Community *Juiced Community *Promote Creative Arts *Rock Your Body *Roughhousing Encouraged *Sharing is Caring *Support the Performing Arts *Tech Support

If you have the Growing together pack, they should have Distant dynamics with their child/ren.

Author’s Suggestion for Self focus: Considering this generation doesn’t have a strong connection to the next gen till later in life once you’ve completed the goals in Adulthood, you can move on to the next one. Simply keep an eye out for when they turn into an elder. Once so, you can have them reconcile and move in with Gen 5 to continue their last objectives.

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Color Prompt:

Mint

(With Sorbet Remix palette) SpearMint and Minty Orchid

Traits: Materialistic, Neat, Family-Oriented

What is your focus?

Focus on Self:

Aspiration: Mansion Baron

Civil Designer (Civic Planner)

Play the Guitar for tips on your down time *(You want to be a lean-mean-money making machine!)

Focus on Others:

Aspiration: Country Caretaker

Freelance (Crafter)

Master Cooking and Parenting *(You’re more of a house spouse that takes care of the farm and the kids. Crafting bits and bobs on the side when your partner’s part-time job fails to make enough money for the bills)

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Life Events:

In your Young Adulthood you live in the Spice district of San Myshuno, with 2 other roommates. You go with the intent of learning every recipe and experiencing the distinct cultures the city has in store — If you choose Others, *Your roommates must be total strangers *Once an adult, you move out to Henford-on-Bagley or Windenburg once you get married. You still reminisce about your time in the city every time you cook up one of the food stall recipes for your children *As previously hinted at, yes, your spouse is meant to be the main breadwinner, working mainly at a part-time job. —If you choose Self, *Your roommates must be people you know, like any siblings or high school friends. *Throughout your life, you slowly make your way up to Penthouse status and live in the city for the rest of your life.

You’re Materialistic, so you like splurging your money every weekend on new furnisher *If you chose Others, this is a means to make sure you’re constantly scraping to get by *NOTE: If you’re a tad bit forgetful like me, and you have Seasons, maybe making a holiday every saturday or sunday can help remind you

As much as you hate it, you come to inherit certain aspects of one of your parents.. *Choose one of the Character Values you share with Gen 4.

If the previous gen was on the Self route; *And you’re on the Others route, you hold a piece of disdain for their indifference towards their children, especially because of the care you have for your own. You can only become friends *And you’re on the Self route, you can become close or best friends with Gen 4, bonding over how you can somewhat understand them better now that you’re older!

When you retire, you spend your time cross-stitching! You litter your house with varying stitches and those around you tend to expect cross-stitches for Winterfest gifts (if you have seasons), as that’s what you usually give! *You also start Fishing! But it’s to keep as pets or to add as ingredients to your food stall recipe meals.

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Color Prompt:

Black

(With Sorbet Remix palette) Squid Ink and Licorice

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Traits: Erratic, Loves Outdoors and Loner

What is your focus?

Focus on Community:

Aspiration: Outdoor Enthusiast

Criminal (Oracle) *You travel to Granite Falls after every promotion to escape something (the Secret Agent officers?)

Master Herbalism *Maintain a garden filled with unusual plants (Toxic plants, “Special Herbs” too if you have Basemental mod, and maybe even the Flytrap from Forgotten Hollow if you have Vampires)

Focus on Knowledge:

Aspiration: Friend of the World

Education (Professor) and then SimsTuber

After meeting and becoming friends with a Vampire you decide to study up on Vampire Lore. *Eventually you quit your career and become a professional conspiracy Sims Tuber that talks about Vampires and other occults (Media Production) *IF you decide to marry said Vampire, the heir can be a Vampire**

**Special rule sets have been made for such an occasion in future gens!

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Life Events:

You’ve always been a bit of a rebel.. A Black Sheep! *Regardless of the Gen 4’s route, If gen 5 is on the Others route, you must have a higher relationship than them with Gen 4 (whether it be them alive, or their spirit). You also get to keep their urn/gravestone! *If gen 5 is on the Self route, you enjoy late night get-aways as a teen in the city. Going out to karaoke, bars, and festivals. If you’re on the Knowledge route, try to do this while also keeping your grades up.

You got the love for food from your parents. Make it a weekly occurrence to visit Restaurants. Eventually you start tasting experimental recipes and learn them all! You also must collect pictures of them *If you chose Knowledge, you also must post every picture on your Simstagram and make how-to videos on each (Using the drone) *If you choose Community, you have to eat Pufferfish Nigiri ONCE (Here’s hoping you live to tell the tale)

If you live to retire, you start Knitting as a hobby. Eventually all you know is knitting! All you WEAR is knitted clothes! Much like your predecessor, all you Gift is knitting! You finally understand them now. :’) *You must give your grandchild (Gen 8) a knitted baby onesie before passing. This could become a family heirloom. **You can try and obtain this by cheating or, if you want the challenge, you can try to keep a steady stream of potions of youth around *Alternatively, on the Knowlegde route, you can also become a vampire as an elder and drink a cure after they’ve completed this objective

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Color Prompt:

Peach

(With Sorbet Remix palette) Orange Cream and Butterscotch

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Traits: Gloomy, Ambitious, and Un-flirty

What is your focus?

Focus on Knowledge:

Aspiration: *(If a Vampire) Master Vampire *(If Human) Jungle Explorer (Inspired by the legacy of your great-grandparents of Gen 4)

Manage a Restaurant *If Vampire, it specializes on Vampire centric foods *If Human, it specializes on the foods of Selvadorada

Vampire or not, you developed a love for all things morbid. *Become friends with a skeleton (or another Occult) and master the Pipe Organ skill (it calms your Gloomy soul)

If you are a Human, as a Jungle Explorer, you can either keep the treasures as an heirloom or donate them to the Selvadoradian Museum (Omiscan Treasures collection)

Focus on Community:

Aspiration: Leader of the Pack *As a teen, if their parent is of the Community Route, they have the Live Fast aspiration *As a teen, if their parent is of the Knowledge route, they have the Goal Oriented aspiration

Politician (Charity Organizer) and Retail owner

Master Logic (Using a telescope in your free time) and Singing (You go to Karaoke bars to get your fill of an ego boost and destress with friends) *When you’re an adult, quit your job and open your own retail store. This is where you sell your Space Prints

If you’re a Vampire and chose this route, you can do one of the following *Try to get the cure from your previous gen *Or Instead pursue the other branch of politics as a President (Vampires take over the world, lol) (You can also discard being a Retail Owner, in turn for running your own Vampire Coven)

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Life Events:

Because of your un-flirty nature, you find it hard to settle with someone who is flirtier than you — Don’t fall for someone with the romantic trait. — You can fall for someone with the unflirty trait. — Maybe have a slow burn love with a childhood friend? Or don’t fall in love at all! You choose! — IF this generation is a Vampire, you can have these additional 2 options: *Adopt a child that is actually a werewolf, therefore either becoming insanely overprotective of them (especially with the vampire community) or becoming a bit of a reluctant parent *Have your spouse/partner/sperm donor be a werewolf (Not necessarily guaranteeing that the next gen is a Werewolf… But that they do have the recessive gene at least). Bonus points if the donor is Greg!

If the previous gen is on the Community route, you can nourish your gloomy soul by getting some plants from their garden (like the flytrap, for example)

If the previous gen was on the Knowledge route *But you’re human, you have a tough time with your parent’s persona. A lot of nonbelievers tended to bully you growing up, and part of you hated your parents for that. Have a strained relationship with your parents in Child and Teen stages *But you’re a Vampire, you always felt accepted and supported by your parents, like they knew all the right answers to your questions and doubts. Have your vampire parent mentor you, maintain a close/best friends relationship with your parents.

You must attempt to befriend the Grim Reaper *This can be when the past gens die off *If you’re a vampire (with the deadly vampires mod), you can also befriend him through killing your meals

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Color Prompt:

Red

(With Sorbet Remix palette) Lychee and Rose

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Traits: Kleptomaniac, Slob, Foodie

What is your focus?

Focus on Self:

Aspiration: Public Enemy *If Werewolf, the Wildfang Renegade or Lone Wolf aspirations

Criminal (Boss) *You took after your grandparent (in terms of being a criminal) and hold their knitting heirlooms dear to your heart

Master Fitness

Focus on Passion:

Aspiration: Fabulously Filthy *Clean only once a week if necessary… Yes, that includes the Dishes *If Werewolf, Emissary of the Collective or Cure Seeker aspirations

Culinary (Chef)

Master Bowling and Video Gaming (Your way of escaping the responsibility of cleaning your home)

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Life Events:

Unlock 12 traits total. (This can include toddler traits and character value traits, self discovery traits as well as Reward traits) *You need to at least have the Bad Manners character value (if you have Parenthood)… You ARE a slob afterall. **If you have mods that automatically assign personality traits, these modded traits do not add to the total count. **Quirks gained through the fame or vampire system do not count. Neither do Lifestyles

You must live in 3 different worlds! *If you chose Self, you must move after every 3 promotions *If you chose Passion, you could move up to 3 times as an alternative to cleaning (What can I say? Sometimes moving for the -nth time is easier than cleaning those weird stains from your clothes…)

As a Klepto, make it a constant thing of giving away the things you steal.

If the previous gen is Human *And the previous gen is Knowledge, you can go on summer vacations with your parents to Selvadorada. Dance and drink the night away, learning about the culture *And the previous gen is Community, you tend to visit every weekend. Sometimes even stealing something from your old room, from time to time.

If the previous gen is a Vampire *And of the Knowledge route, learn the Violin skill to be able to play with them when they play the Pipe Organ. *And on the Community route, Have them stay over at your place on the weekends! You can both go on the prowl at night (if you’re a werewolf too, that is)

Collect Crystals in your spare time.

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Color Prompt:

Light Blue

(With Sorbet Remix palette) Cotton Candy and Star Flower

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Traits: Dog or Cat Lover, Bookworm, Active

What is your focus?

Focus on Others:

Aspiration: Friend of the Animals

Social Media (Personality) *You can make a little pet blog alongside your own!

The most Charismatic one around! You enjoy making friends and using your fame to do what you can to help others (Master Charisma)

Focus on Passion:

Aspiration: Extreme Sports Enthusiast

Athlete (Bodybuilder)

Baking! Even a tough person like you, with a penchant for adrenaline needs some down time!

Focus on Self:

Aspiration: Self Care Specialist

Be a self employed Yoga instructor and/or masseuse

Live in Tartosa and collect Messages in a Bottle while doing your usual Yoga routines on the beach.

Focus on Community

Aspiration: Serial Romantic

Be a Judge (Law career)

You become quite collector in your spare time, garnering a collection of metals

Focus on Knowledge

Aspiration: The Curator

Detective

Collect Feathers that your pet brings you! Aww, thanks buddyyy!

You must master Veterinarian skill. You don’t trust just anyone with your pet!

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Life Events:

You have many friends that you make along the way, all of which have attended your BANGER parties. You sure know how to make your ancestors (Specifically gen 2) proud! *Earn gold on 5 different party types *If you choose Others, you have to take a BUNCH of pictures and post to Simstagram… OR, stream the party. *If you chose Passion, you never hire chefs. You take the initiative and bake all the party goods hours in advance. *If you chose Self, you tend to invite your regular customers *If you choose Community, Avoid bringing over any love interests or exes

If Gen 8 is focused on Self, *And you’re in the Others, Self or Passion route. you cut all ties with them, ashamed of their criminal behavior. *If you’re Community or Knowledge you’re a corrupt official. You head into the respective careers with the hope of keeping them out of jail. For Knowledge, you may even be close friends with criminals you meet in lock up

If Gen 8 is focused on Passion, *If you’re Others, you stream playing video games with them any time they’re over *If you’re Passion, you make it a weekly occurrence to cook together and have picnics (with Cottage living) *If you’re Knowledge, you make a team to Bowl with them on the weekends. *If you’re Community or Self you tend to hire them as your chef for your parties

You need to have two children. One needs to be an adopted child, the other is an alien baby.

You can start wood carving as a hobby after you retire *Optionally, make your entire home out of the items you make. A fully wooden home!

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Final Notes and Links to 6 endings for the 10th Generation

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Much love and chaos to all! <3

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georginamarsdenfmp · 7 years ago

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I am now beginning to research different lookbooks to use as inspiration for my lookbook template and design. I have found different lookbooks and promotional material with relevant images to my project’s theme. I have also tried to find different layouts of work such as lookbooks, postcards and promotional books to gain a variety of research and help me decided on what I’d like to create.

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I have found two promotional postcards, one from a graphic designer and another from a fashion brand called Anphropologie. The first post card is promoting their skills to anyone who would like to contact them. On one side of the postcard is imagery of the graphic designers work which is black and white monochrome. On the other side they have kept the black and white theme. There is text in the bottom left corner, their name is in a heavily weighted sans serif font. The rest of the text which include information about how to contact the graphic design, is in the same font family, however, this has a lighter weight to it. This postcard design is very simple but it is also effective. There is no unnecessary imagery or colours on the back of the postcard which could distract the target audience away from what is important which is their contact details. These postcards are obviously supposed to be next to someone's work for people to pick up if they would like to. I really like this idea as it promotes their work well. I’m interested in creating an idea like this for my final piece. On the other hand, the other postcard that I have is quite different. On one side is a flood filled image of a women also in black and white, staring directly into the camera. This shot is called a mid shot. On the other side of the card, instead of continuing the monochrome theme like the other postcard decided did, this one features a light pink paint brush strokes. The light pink is very classy and feminine and I think it works well for this brand as they tend to use very pale colours. If they hand used bright fuchsia pink, it would not have suited their brand. On top of the pink is text which is all in the same serif font. However, they have used a different font style such as italics, capital letters or they have altered the size. The body of text which is place slightly higher than middle of the page, has a justified alignment. The text at the bottom of the page has a central alignment. I think this works well as they flow straight down the centre of the page. This postcard is different to the first as it is instead promoting the brands wedding collection to a very different audience. I really like how simple the first postcard is which makes ti effective and straight to the point, I will experiment with this during my designing process. However, I definitely prefer the second postcard just because of how feminine it looks without being too busy. They have included text which they have laid out so it doesn't overwhelm the audience when they look at it. I definitely want to experiment with this style. I feel like a postcard design would be useful to have by my video at the exhibition for people to take if they are interested in my blog.

My next research is of a promotional book by the makeup brand Urban Decay. This book is different and similar to my previous research in many ways. On the front of the book features their signature colours which is purple as the background. On top of that is embossed text in a lighter colour of purple, featuring the brands name in the centre. There is also an elegant swirling design coming off of the text and filling the rest of the cover so it doesn't look plain or boring. The embossed elements gives the text and nice glossy look and added texture. Inside of the book features images of women in a medium close up shot on the left hand side to the page. Similarly to the Ted Baker lookbook they have a similar layout of placing images on the left and writing on the right. However, unlike the lookbook, these images are only on the left and don't carry on onto the rest of the spread. These images show examples of makeup looks which can be created with their products. Unlike any other research I’ve done so far, this promotional material uses shapes to make their images look more interesting. Such as, on the right hand side of the spread, they have used a circle shape with an extreme close up shot of the women’s make up inside of it. So the target audience can clearly see how to wear and style the makeup that the brand sells. The circle also features the same elegant details as on the front cover to make the page look less boring. Underneath the shape is a sans serif font in a different font family. The title is on a separate line in a bigger size and with a heavier weight to it. The body of text has a lighter weight to it. Both text elements have a right alignment which is unlike my other research and is very unique as it’s not often seen. I really like how they have continued the elegant details throughout the promotional material. I will experiment with using different shapes for my images, similarly to their style as it’s very unique and will be remembered by my target audience.

My final research is a promotional leaflet which folds up and can be stood up. The leaflet is for the brand Hard Rock Cafe. It features eight images, four on either side of the leaflet when unfolded. Each photo has a white border framing the images. All of the images are mid shots but they all differ slightly. Two images of men are in the middle of the leaflet, these were both taken in a studio setting. In both images the audience can clearly see that the men are wearing the Hard Rock Cafe merchandise which promotes their products. Two images on the edges of the leaflet are of women which were taken on location. On these two images they feature text about the company such as a rewards systems and the shop’s menu. A lot of the text is the same, a bold sans serif but in different sizes, colours and laid out differently. On one image the text is at the bottom of the image with a blue rectangle behind it. As the text is at the bottom of the image, the audience can clearly still see the image. The font is white with central alignment so it stands out. However, on the other image it is a lot busier. The text has left alignment in a bigger size which takes up quite a lot of the image. This image also features the colours red and black which shows that the reward system relates to wealth and prestigious. As this format is a leaflet it is very unique from my other research. I think this could be an interesting design as it is small yet it shows a lot of images unlike a postcard design. However, I don’t think my images would suit the style of a leaflet design so I will therefore not be using this format.

From this research, i have concluded that I would like to create either a book design or a postcard design to go alongside my video final piece. I think these design will work well and my audience will be able to take them if they wish. This will promote my work, myself and my blog. It will also make my project more memorable. I will now begin to create designs inspired by my research and a mood board which I will create.

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