The first of May, International Workers’ Day is celebrated (nearly) all over the world.
The perfect occasion to lean back and beautify your workplace. Take some time to bring your (home) workspace to life with photos of furry friends, sunny days and lots of fun memories. Grab your instax camera or your instax printer and let’s go!
1. Take some snaps of your favorites with your instax.
2. Add pretty embellishments to them, such as drawings and stickers. Get creative!
3. Put them up on the walls and shelves around your desk using decorative masking tape.
Printing never stops but unusual times require extraordinary approaches. FUJIFILM supports its partners in the local onsite printing business. Spread the news, let your customer know you are still open to receive orders. Engage on social platforms. Be creative. Join the community. #letthemknow #neverstopprinting
In these difficult times, many of us are looking for ways to help out our friends and neighbors who own and work in small businesses. We can’t forget the local photo retailers whom we’ve relied on to print our most cherished memories over the years. A lot of these shops are closed to customers during lockdown, their printers sitting idle. It doesn’t have to be this way.
We still need our photos printed, now more than ever. What better way to cope with the isolation that lockdown can bring than to share our lives with the people we care about?
We want to send postcards to friends to tell them how we’re doing. We want to make scrapbooks to relive our old memories, and hold onto the new ones that we’re making in these times. We want to break out of our boredom and have fun with prints on social media, sharing laughs and camaraderie with friends around the world because we’re all in this together. And please, give us something nice to hang on our walls, because we’re staring at them more than ever now.
These unusual times require extraordinary approaches. As a photo retailer, you can’t just wait for people to walk through your door. You must go to them. But how can you do this when the entire landscape has shifted so radically?
People can still send their images to you so that they can be printed. You don’t need a dedicated system to make things work in this new, thankfully temporary age. You can use email, SMS, or WhatsApp to transfer photos. Just figure out the payment option that works best for you and your customers, whether it’s bank transfers, PayPal, or something else. Then you can mail prints back to your friends and neighbors at home. Let them hold their memories and support you as a local business.
Your friends at Fujifilm want to help you, too. Let’s all work together as a community to remind the world that photo printing is both needed and available. Hundreds of thousands of people are already showing their support for their local businesses through social media and hashtags. Join them.
For information on how to join the global community of local photo retailers, contact your local FUJIFILM partner.
Easter is coming up, and it does not matter whether you usually celebrate with an egg hunt, attending church, eating well or enjoying a bright Easter fire outside. We all know that this year’s celebrations will be drastically different to what we normally would have planned for the coming days.
A lot of us would like to take the chance and meet family and friends, visit somebody they love, have a good meal at friends’ cosy places or simply go out for lunch together. A lot of those “usual” rituals have had to be cancelled as we are asked to stay at home and self-quarantine. We are positive that you will find a way of celebrating with your loved ones regardless of the circumstances. Maybe it doesn’t really matter how, maybe what matters will simply be finding creative ways of connecting, like: Creating a video conference with your family, preparing your own Easter breakfast or meeting your best friend via video call – hiding the Easter eggs inside the house to surprise your partner or kids might also be nice these days.
We wish you relaxed and happy Easter Holidays, lots of inspiration for staying in contact with family and friends and, most importantly, health and happiness.
The Fujifilm family has reached week 3 of, where possible, working in the #homeoffice in the #fujicomfortzone.
Our colleagues sharing their #fujicomfortzone moments.
The corona pandemic has massively impacted people’s lifestyle, health and the global economy. But it also seems to help focus on the parts of our lives that are most valuable to all of us. Across Europe, our Fujifilm workforce has jointly communicated online under the hashtag #fujicomfortzone. Our colleagues posted and expressed positive thoughts, motivation and hope for one another.
These communal posts lead to the positive fact that all over the Fujifilm family, colleagues let us know what is most valuable and precious to them. We have met partners and children, found out about furry animal house mates that explore workspaces and got a glimpse into the way colleagues live, a glance into the save place we call home – that has become a #fujicomfortzone over the recent weeks.
Our colleagues also let us know what they consider most important when working for Fujifilm Europe while not being able to enter their office as usual. Being in contact with colleagues, via telephone or video calls – not only to get the important and valuable information that we all need to do a good job, but also to be in contact, to share excitement, fear, news and … tips and tricks that help to stay sane during quarantine.
Over these days and weeks, we might all have learned a lot about staying mentally sane while being pretty much locked into our homes during spring. We learned about keeping the daily routine – getting up and getting dressed, having a coffee, reading the newspapers and then starting the “day at work”, we have learned about indoor sports and self motivation – just to mention a few handy tips that our friends, family and the media were able to provide us.
Fujifilm Europe’s workforce is very diverse and multicultural, colleagues bring together different languages, sports, music and art and most of all – in times of grocery shops missing toilet paper, bread, pasta and tomato juice – they bring in different cuisines.
Well, it obviously makes a lot of sense to care about good and healthy food. Fujifilm Europe is making every effort to provide the best possible service for customers and partners during these times of crisis. Considering that “no engine runs without fuel” we should not forget to take care of ourselves to stay healthy, strong and active to work in our #fujicomfortzone. Therefore, we have prepared a beautiful but simple dish sent in by one of our colleagues that helps you – in times of chronic bread shortages, to use all of it, even the rest, the hard and old bits – as well as possible and at the same time welcome yummy beautiful fruit, colour and spring.
So, everybody – Fujifilm family or not: Feel invited to #neverstop eating healthy and fresh in your #fujicomfortzone!
Fujifilm Europe
P.S. We are curious about your favourite spring recipes in 2020. Upload them on the usual social platforms using #fujicomfortzone.
Eating healthy while working at home in the #fujicomfortzone is very important. Therefore, we would like to share this recipe with you.
Fun fact: In German we call this dish “Arme Ritter”, meaning “Poor Knights” – enough information to get an idea? The best dishes and ideas often originate as emergency solutions.
To serve 2 “Poor (hungry) Knights” you will need:
-2 slices of (old) bread -2 eggs -cinnamon -40ml milk -4Tbsp of yogurt -1 knob of butter -2Tbsp jam (e.g. strawberry or raspberry) -1Tbsp honey (pro tip: exchange with agave syrup) -1 small glass / shot glass of orange juice -1 handful of raspberries (or whatever fruits are in season)
Beat milk and eggs in a bowl. (My tip: Add some cinnamon for extra taste.) Place the slices of bread on a plate to pour the mixture on top. Leave the bread on the plate to let it soak for some time. Now and then, turn the bread. Cut the slices into four equal strips.
Mix the jam, orange juice and honey / agave syrup in a bowl.
Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the bread strips into the pan. Now, fry them quickly until golden brown on both sides.
Arrange the bread strips on a clean plate and add yogurt, jam mixture and fruit on top.
Valentine’s Day is the perfect occasion to remind your loved ones you’re esteeming them. Sure, flowers and chocolate will always be welcome on Valentine’s Day. But if you’re looking for something a little less predictable, we’ve got a simple, affordable, meaningful & awesome gift idea for her as well as for him. With a homemade Instax Postcard filled with your love greetings, you are guaranteed to make your lover happy.
You need:
some blank pieces of coloured card.
a glue stick
a special pen
one instax snap, that connects you with your Valentine
decorative string or ribbon
Cut your coloured card down to a postcard size. If you like to you can include a little frame for the instax snap in another colour. We used a brown card that’s a little bigger than the chosen instax picture (We used the instax mini 70.)
Now it’s time for sticking your pieces of card. Place your frame right in the centre of the red piece of card and stick your beloved instax snap right in the centre of your frame. Decorate your love card with some ribbon or string to beautify it.
Let’s move forward to the important part – your message on the back. Use a special pen like a golden one or a brush pen to express your feelings towards your beloved person.
Your unique Postcard is ready! We hope the
lucky recipient is thrilled and you’ll have great Valentine ’s Day with your
loved one.
