HeyJaredGood Atmosphere
A Field Guide for Creative Work & Living, from the founder of P.F. Candle Co.
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The business case for using what you have (opens the original)
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Let the materials decideOn Tuesday we launched our Celestial collection launch. Housed in a black jar with a celestial silvery foil label, we’ve brought back Copal and Smoky Cinnamon, and added Teakwood & Tobacco to the mix. For this collection, we used material constraints as our design inspiration.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pmWE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2F
Taking it very, deliberately easy (opens the original)
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September is actually one of the hottest months in Los Angeles, but it’s the month when you want to get into the Fall spirit, buoyed by a deceptive crisp in the air in the mornings, school back in session, and fall candles being released (or in my case, produced in the factory). Basically, your mind is in fall but your body is in the summer. This time of year is when things start to ramp back up: school volunteering, friend re-unions, holiday plans made. You can feel the gears clicking into plac
Finding design inspiration offline (opens the original)
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I’ve been amassing stacks of books and magazines on my coffee table, a cudgel which which to fight Instagram brain. “Flip through me!” the tomes taunt early in the morning while I’m having an espresso. “Don’t flip through your reels”.I’ve pretty anti-social media for someone who creates content for not one but two social media accounts. But this summer, I got sucked back in. At first, the app just lived on my phone, ready when I needed to post something or respond to a comment. Then, somewhere a
Dispatches from a Sierra summer trip (opens the original)
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There are few places I’d rather be on a free summer day than the High Sierra. Before our daughter was born, Tom and I completed a backpacking trip to Ediza Lake. We’d spent all year training for it, having decided in early 2015 to quit drinking for a while and focus on health, which meant eating a lot of ice cream (haha) and hiking every Saturday instead of going to Spring Street Bar for beers and hot sandwiches. The backpacking trip to Lake Ediza was IT, the ultimate summit of all our Saturday
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