Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Multi-account ATM cards, A.P.C. quilts, mini macaroons and more in our look at the week on the web

1. Minifood and Modular Dollhouses From tiny boxes of Laudurée macaroons to finely-detailed salmon steaks, architect Stéphanie Kilgast’s miniatures are Lilliputian works of wonder. 2. In Search of the Miraculous or One Thing Leads to Another In Search of the Miraculous or One Thing Leads to Another” explores esteemed designer Milton Glaser‘s sources of inspiration and how a single source can inspire a range of …

The Walkmen x Etsy

Indie rock meets indie design to celebrate a new album

For their new album Lisbon, Brooklyn band The Walkmen wrote several songs during their many visits to the Portuguese capital. But when it came time to think about merch, the group looked a little closer to home, tapping the DIY experts at Etsy. The upshot—t-shirts, limited-edition silkscreened inserts, and a hand silk-screened album poster—connects the indie music world with indie design…and Portugal. Pittsburgh artist Andy …

Nathalie Emiebach

Visualizing meteorological, astronomical and other data with woven reed sculptures

While artist Nathalie Emiebach’s sculptures look like Sarah Sze got ahold of some tinker-toys, the conceptual underpinnings are far more complex. Drawing on data sets—like the distance between sun and earth or moon phases—that she collects herself, Emiebach uses the information to dictate the dimensions, shapes and position of her reed weavings. Colorful sticks and constellations of beads represent other bits of data, like less …