Now they don’t need to worry about keeping tabs of the files by email, they don’t need to keep remembering what files types do what if they loose one they know where they can access the master files any time they wish. It feels great to have such a convenient and flexible system in place for the client. It seems such a logical way to manage your clients files and I’m sure many of you do something like this already. Once all the files were in place, I then went to the Dropbox website to set-up folder sharing for that client.

In each of these file folders I then created a ‘ Read Me‘ file which lists the type of files, how they should and should not be used with any other relevant information useful to the client and anyone else needing the files. So in this case, one folder is called ‘ Master Printer Files‘ which would contain all the variations of the master Illustrator CS files and another folder is called ‘ Transparent Bitmaps‘ which contains the various bitmap files. Within the client named folder– Skiplex–I then create a folder to contain each main type of file format with an obvious description as the folder name. In my Dropbox folder I created a folder called ‘ Client Logo Files‘ and then within that would be a folder for each client this is the folder that would be shared with the client, for example ‘ Skiplex’. They would know that they could access a neatly arranged folder of their logo files as and when they needed. The way I was imagining it the client wouldn’t have to worry about keeping certain file types separate from each other, or trying to remember what file types should not go to a printers and all that crap. Whilst I was emailing my client some revised logo files, it suddenly occurred to me that I could create a master online repository for all of a clients logos using Dropbox. Especially important when there a combination of print quality vector files and the frumpy bitmap versions that a lot of clients end up using themselves.Īll this has been fine I have not had any reason to think about changing this method it until this little idea popped into my head. The email would be a brief description of the files types and how they should be used.

Up and till recently I have relied on emailing the finished logo files to the client.

Dropbox logo design