Nia Yost's Digital Media Blog

 Artist Statement:  While searching for what kind of layout I wanted to use for my final portfolio, I ran into many of them being very “busy” and they all seemed too packed with unneeded details or designs. I am a minimalist. I do not like books, websites, or spaces to be packed with “things”, I think that it is very distracting. So, for my final portfolio I decided to stick with a minimalistic theme. I mainly used rectangles and squares as a basis for the whole project. Also, I stuck to around the same two colors: purple and blue. Through the entire project the font is the same and the same size for the different types of paragraphs. I thought making the portfolio straight to the point, is a good tactic not only to say the eyes of people who cannot focus on that many details, but as a point that I am a person that gets the job done clean and efficiently. Overall, this project was fun to do and really showed me how much art I have accomplished over the semester.

Artist Statement:  For this project I used the Adobe System, InDesign. Through the tools and applications of InDesign, I was able to make three different business cards. These business cards have a few facets: I included my logo in all three of the cards, my cell phone number is also included, a website to reach me at, and an email. Giving multiple ways of communication is always a good idea when it comes to business cards. I choose mainly pastel colors when designing my business cards. I chose pastel color because I think they worked best with the logo I chose.  However, I did make one of the business cards a bright red; I chose red to be one of the colors since it really “pops” out at a viewer and makes it “unforgettable”. I think the black and white logo really works the best with all the colors I chose.   While making this project, I struggled a few times. One of my main problems during this project was remembering which layer I was currently editing on. When I would get mixed up o