Frequent Visitors is a weekly newsletter created to share the things we (over at Frequent Practice) have enjoyed visiting each week. Sometimes related to design, reads, and creativity. Sometimes related to anything else.
There’s a web of people who’ve put reading at the center of their lives because they know from experience that reading makes them more expansive, generous people.
—George Saunders
This Week’s Visits
This tweet perfectly describes our feelings towards our first frequently visited book this week, the Last Whole Earth Catalog. Wishing we could spend a day inside Stewart Brand’s brain.
The final issue of Here Magazine (Issue 14: order here) featuring Lamorne Morris, best drives around the world, a brief history of protests and more. Designed by dream duo Chloe Scheffe and Natalie Shields.
Cubed is a book written by Ernö Rubik, the inventor of the eponymous Rubik’s Cube. It is a goldmine of thoughts on what it means to be a creator, failure, curiosity, and the case for always being an amateur—something he has always considered himself to be. Pulling out just one quote was near impossible, but here is one of our favourites:
Too often as adults we seem to believe play is just a diversion, or another form of competition outside the workplace. But play is one of the most serious things in the world. We often do things really well only when we do them playfully.
We are more relaxed about them; the task becomes not a burden nor a test, but an opportunity for free expression. We can engage without overthinking or feeling anxious about whether we did something correctly.
Parks, the second title from standards manual with photographer Brian Kelley, is a collection of over 300 US national park ephemera, maps, and brochures spanning over 100 years.
The World of Giving is filled with the ethics and politics of giving, and brings awareness into the crucial role giving plays in everyday life.
The last decade was largely defined by consumption and greed. An untold story, however, is the rise in benevolent giving seen in institutional, public and private sectors. Such characteristics as altruism and duty are now as influential as self-interest.
While visiting the Vitra Museum in Basel, we had the great privilege to stumble across an exhibit on design and night club culture. Night Fever - Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today is a stunning book, offering a comprehensive overview of the design history of nightclubs—the epicentre of contemporary culture.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, they have been centres of the avantgarde that question social norms and experiment with different realities, merging interior and furniture design, graphics and art with sound, light, fashion, and special effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk.
Protest. The Aesthetics of Resistance reflects on past and present forms of protest and looks at the practices of resistance from a wide variety of perspectives.
“This survey of the visual slogans that have been used as tools for social change over the last half-century reveals how blurred is the line between politics and poetics, art and life."
—New York Times
That is all for this week! Thank you for reading and we hope you enjoyed your visit :) We love having visitors as much as we love being them, so please feel free to subscribe below and reply with your thoughts + some of your favourite finds.
Hope you are staying warm + healthy.
FP