industrial textures & a one-page-wonder
In years past Azalea Sofware has given away calendars, each featuring the photography of Jerry Whiting (who happens to be Azalea's Pres/CEO). Previous years have had photos of neon, orchids, graffiti, and signs.
We look forward to each year's calendars as much if not more than our family, friends, and business partners do. They're fun and last all year long!
2009 has been an unusually "challenging" year for us, as it has been for countless others around the world. The Great Recession has affected us as it has many small businesses and as a result we've been forced to lay off staff, relocate to a smaller office, cut healthcare benefits, and reduce the compensation for those who are still here. In 17 years of doing business, we've never seen anything like this.
Lemons? Lemonade! We may not be printing and mailing a calendar this year but that doesn't mean we can't share one with you.
We invite you to download and print our free 2010 calendars. Right-click on either calendar's thumbnail to download and save the PDF file. You can print them on your black & white laser printer, or on a color inkjet (hint, hint). Your local copy shop probably has a spiffy color printer too.
The Azalea Software 2010 calendar features pictures of industrial textures photographed in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood. (It reminds Jerry of Cleveland, his hometown.) Each month highlights the holidays and celebrations we honor. And yes, those are our birthdays. Witty cards, lavish gifts, exotic flowers, PayPal out of the blue, and piles of cash are all gladly accepted.
The second calendar is a barcode nerd calendar. It's simple year-at-a-glance one page calendar. Our favorite holidays are in bold and the months are in Code 39 (JAN-DEC, left to right, top to bottom). You'll figure it out. Bonus points if you get the foto.
Obscure Azalea trivia: this calendar is a throwback to our very first calendar done years ago. We used the same James River purple stock as our product packaging. No photo but the 3-letter abbreviations for each month was done in Code 39.
One of our secret joys is visiting those we know and seeing that month's photo out of the corner of our eye.
In addition to our own calendars this year we're proud to feature a 2010 calendar designed by Peg Ogle, of Peg Ogle Design in Seattle. She does inspired work and we're overjoyed with her calendar design (as we are with all of her work). Please download her 2010 calendar in PDF format and print it for yourself.
Please feel free to pass this link along.
- Miranda & Jerry
