Machine Turns Plastic Bags Into Stylish Totes; Donate Money to Create a Bushwick Font Style

• Plastic bags are being banned all over the world because they’re so bad for the environment. This hand-cranked machine turns them into haute totes. [Fast Co. Design]
• Here’s ten only-in-Brooklyn Halloween costumes. [Brownstoner]
• An East Village artist is trying to raise $7,000 to create a Bushwick typeface. It’s inspired by industrial signage and graffiti. [DNAinfo]
• Franklin D. Vagnone, executive director of New York City’s Historic House Trust, has created an “anarchist’s plan” to reinvent the historic house museum. [Curbed]
• Wolfgang Puck will open his first-ever NYC restaurant next year. [Eater]

Images: Streetplastic via Stefanie Rittler (L); Artist Pablo Medina‘s Bushwick font (R)