Surface Matter Recycled Plastic Inspiration Box – Sustainable Material Offcuts for Creative Experiment

Created in collaboration with Surface Matter, this Inspiration Box is a curated collection of recycled plastic offcuts from manufacturing for makers, designers, architects, educators, and anyone curious about innovative materials. Each box contains a unique mix of colours, textures, and surface materials that would otherwise go to waste.

Expect a changing selection of materials including Durat, Richlite, Plasticiet, Pierreplume, Shaped, and other innovative surfaces from Surface Matter's material library. From recycled plastics and paper composites to acoustic textiles and architectural surfaces, every box offers new opportunities for exploration and creative making.

Designed for people who enjoy experimenting with materials, this box is about creative discovery, not fixed contents.

What is the Surface Matter Plastic Inspiration Box?

The Surface Matter Inspiration Box is designed to spark ideas rather than deliver a predefined collection of materials. Instead of fixed contents, each box contains a thoughtfully packed assortment of reclaimed manufacturing offcuts, encouraging experimentation, prototyping, model making, material exploration, and creative play.

Whether you're developing concepts, teaching materiality, building prototypes, creating artworks, or simply discovering new materials, every box offers a different starting point.

This box is probably NOT for you if:

• You are looking for a specific material, colour, thickness, or finish.
• You need a particular product such as Richlite, Durat, or Plasticiet for a project.
• You require matching pieces or a coordinated material palette.
• You need material in large, continuous sheet sizes.
• You prefer to know exactly what you are buying before you purchase.
• You are sourcing materials for a production run where consistency is essential.

The Surface Matter Inspiration Box is designed for experimentation, surprise, and creative discovery. Every box is different and reflects the reclaimed materials available at the time of packing.

If you enjoy discovering innovative materials you may never have chosen yourself, you're in the right place.

What’s inside the box?

Each Surface Matter Inspiration Box contains a changing selection of reclaimed material offcuts in mixed sizes, sourced from manufacturing processes and carefully curated by Surface Matter.

Materials may include brands such as Durat, Richlite, Plasticiet, Pierreplume, Shape, alongside other innovative surface materials used in architecture, interiors, furniture, retail design, and product design. The exact combination depends entirely on what surplus materials are available at the time of packing, meaning no two boxes are ever the same.

Some boxes may include solid surface materials, recycled paper composites, recycled plastic panels, acoustic materials, or other architectural surface innovations. Every box is an opportunity to discover new textures, colours, finishes, and possibilities.

Box sizes

REGULAR: 5kg
LARGE: 10kg

What can you make with it?

Customers use the Surface Matter Inspiration Box for a wide range of creative projects, including architectural models, product prototypes, furniture concepts, material studies, educational workshops, art installations, interior details, home décor, jewellery, model making, and creative experimentation.

Whether you're an architect, designer, student, artist, educator, or curious maker, this box is designed to inspire new ideas through unexpected materials.

About Surface Matter

Surface Matter helps designers, architects and brands make better material choices to keep valuable materials in circulation because change shouldn’t mean waste.

Why creating with reclaimed materials?

Every piece in this box has been rescued from manufacturing offcuts and given a second life. Rather than allowing valuable materials left over from production to go unused, the Surface Matter Inspiration Box helps keep them in circulation, supporting a more circular approach to design while giving makers access to materials that are often difficult to source in small quantities.

It's an opportunity to experiment with high-performance architectural materials, reduce waste, and discover new possibilities through making.