Objects made by hand. Designed to return.

We take responsibility for the full life of every object we make.

Most home goods are made from materials that can't be recovered, by suppliers you can't visit, in factories an ocean away. The lifecycle ends when you throw it away — and roughly 9% of plastic ever produced has actually been recycled. ORIGEN is built to invert that. We collect single-use plastic from one Hudson County neighborhood. We wash it, shred it, extrude our own filament, and print every piece in one Jersey City workshop. When you're finished with what we made you, we take it back and make it again.

Behind ORIGEN.

ORIGEN was founded by Geoff LaCorte in Jersey City in 2026. Geoff also runs Liberti Lab, a design and engineering studio on the same block. ORIGEN is the consumer-facing arm of that work — physical objects you can buy, made entirely from material we recover ourselves, by hand, in our space. We didn't start a brand to sell more things. We started ORIGEN because the things being sold are mostly indefensible.

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Geoff LaCorte in the ORIGEN studio at 98 Forrest St, Jersey City
Top-down view: a purple TacTile lattice with a crushed PET bottle in the same color resting on top — input and output side by side

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Designed in Jersey City.

Every form starts as a sketch on the studio wall at 98 Forrest. We design with hand, eye, and printer — no off-the-shelf molds, no factory templates, no compromises smuggled in by a supply chain we can't see.

Green PET bottle standing on a matching green TacTile — input and output, same material, same color

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Made on one block.

We collect single-use water bottles from our Hudson County neighborhood. We wash them, shred them, and extrude our own filament. Every step happens within walking distance of where the object was conceived.

Sapphire ORIGEN vases fresh off the printer bed

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Machine made, human finished.

Each piece is spiral-printed on machines we maintain ourselves. There's no production line. Just one piece, then the next. The lines you see in the wall of every ORIGEN object are the literal record of one continuous helical extrusion.

ORIGEN-made filament being extruded from recycled PET

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Returned. Remade.

Send any ORIGEN piece back to the studio when you're done with it — whole or broken. We shred it down, re-extrude the material, and print again. The same plastic enters its next life. Members receive return shipping and credit toward what comes next.

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Visit the studio

By appointment, at 98 Forrest Street in Bergen-Lafayette — a historically industrial neighborhood in southwest Jersey City, once a rail and warehouse district and now home to a growing community of artists and makers.

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Commission custom works

Specialized material, textures, and design tailored to your specifications. From a single statement piece to a full hospitality install, every commission begins with a conversation about your space and ends with one of one. Quotes back within two business days.

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Collaborate

Corporate waste streams, materials R&D, design partnerships, education programming. We work with brands, institutions, and creative teams to translate their material footprint into something useful and worth keeping. Every project leaves the studio with measurable impact.

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Become a Member

Lifetime take-back access, batch reports, first look at every new drop. Members shape the direction of the studio through early-access releases, members-only commissions, and direct input on what gets made next. One-time joining fee. No renewals, no expiration.

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Working with

ORIGEN × Precious Plastic NYC.

A partnership with a decade-long community education initiative bringing single-use plastic recovery into Hudson County classrooms, public workshops, and design programming.

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