<aside> ⚠️ All final projects should be submitted to my Dropbox as PDFs, unless otherwise indicated. Click the link at the TOP of gregjones.co to drag and drop your files.
• Only use your official University name. • Only use your uwa.edu address. • Do not upload compressed or zipped files. • Do not upload folders of files.
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I sort by most recently uploaded, so if you edit something and wish to resubmit, I will only consider the last version. You do not need to tell me about it or ask permission.
After you submit, you will receive an onscreen confirmation as shown below. (Dropbox also notifies me simultaneously of your timestamped submission.)
Please do not ask me to check whether I have received any or all of your submissions. If the confirmation displays on your browser window, I have your submissions.
As always, ask questions in the course GroupMe.
At the undergraduate and graduate level, all work is expected to be pixel-perfect. We are preparing you to become a working professional. I strongly recommend you share your future work with others before turning it in to ensure it meets the quality standard expected in our industry. Close enough is not good enough.
Make sure you send work in the requested file format, or the work will not be graded.
Unless a client, service provider, or professor specifically asks for a native print file (.ai, .ps, or .indd, for example), you should send work as a .jpg or .pdf, as appropriate. These formats can be accessed by anyone, even on a phone. To require someone to go to a desktop and launch a program to review your work is an unnecessary complication. In addition, certain file types/programs do not inherently embed assets like fonts and images, so the native files are incomplete and cannot be rendered, viewed, or printed. The correct way to send a native InDesign file, for example, is to go to File > Package. This creates a file with an image folder, a font folder, and an .indd file. To email it it to them, you’d have to compress or zip the file first. Then, they'd have to download the file and uncompress it. However, unless the recipient has your fonts already loaded on his/her computer, the recipient will have to install the fonts in order to simply view--much less print--the file. TOO MUCH WORK.
Clients get really frustrated when they can’t see the work we send them. Let’s face it: if they had Creative Cloud, they probably wouldn’t need us to design for them. And there’s no sense starting with a breach of confidence.
Get in the habit of sending deliverables in formats others can use.