Outsea

Premium design slabs, made from the ocean instead of the quarry.

Brand narrative & Strategy

Generative AI

Motion graphics

YEAR

2026

INDUSTRY

Material innovation, Recycling, Environmental technology

From ocean waste to a design material

Every year, over 12 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean. Outsea takes polymers recovered from the seabed and refines them: a patented thermofusion process, no toxic resins, no virgin extraction, into high-performance architectural slabs. Waste doesn't get hidden here. It becomes the material.

Every slab knows where it came from

An invisible NFC tag sits inside every slab. Hold a phone to the surface and it opens an archive: the exact recovery coordinates, mission footage, certified impact in CO2 saved and plastic pulled out. The material stops being decorative and starts being accountable: every square meter installed is ocean cleanup you can verify.

The ocean picks the palette

Outsea's color isn't chosen in a lab. With no artificial pigment, salt, time and currents give each batch its own fingerprint. The slabs are dense and hard-wearing, closer to stone than plastic, and they turn up where you'd least expect recycled waste: luxury retail, yacht surfaces, furniture. Commitment you can touch.

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Maio Studio - hello@maiodesign.it
VAT Number: IT 17151421009 - VAT Number: IT 18381661000