ANS Bag Moodmat
A flat eight inch rubber mat printed to look like a zip seal baggie packed with cartoon flower. Nothing goes inside it. Artist Series, run of 150.
The Print
A Full Baggie, Drawn Flat
Start with what it is, because the name points somewhere else. This is one flat sheet of printed rubber. There is no zipper hardware, no slider, no pull tab, no interlocking track, no stitching, no gusset, no side wall, no handle and no strap loop, and nothing on it casts the shadow a three dimensional object would cast. Zoom to the top edge and the press seal track resolves into a pale blue double stroke sitting on exactly the same flat surface as the buds, with the same single thickness of cut rubber behind it as every other edge on the piece. The maker’s title describes the subject of the picture rather than the format of the product. We have kept the title because it is theirs, and we are telling you what the object is because that is our job.
The picture itself is a clear zip seal pouch packed corner to corner. Its body is a pale ice blue wash with two vertical white glare streaks down the left and right thirds, which is the shorthand a marker artist uses for plastic, and a narrow lighter band above the seal line reads as the lip. Inside, roughly a dozen overlapping buds stack into a tight bouquet, drawn as lobed clusters in three flat cel fills: acid yellow, hot magenta pink and a cool grey lavender white. Every one carries a heavy black brush outline of deliberately uneven weight with short hook marks cut into it for surface shading. Spiky dark violet sugar leaves push out between the lobes, thin orange amber pistils thread through them, and five large fan leaves in violet and indigo splay across the bottom third to give the whole arrangement something to sit on.
Up close the construction is simple and honest. The print bleeds to bare black rubber on all four sides, so the quarter inch of black around the artwork is the cut face of the sheet rather than a designed frame, and it is slightly uneven the whole way around. Corners are radiused generously. The cut line carries a soft hand cut wobble, pinching in a little on the upper left and bulging out a little on the lower right, which makes the outline slouch the way a full pouch slouches. It is not a tight geometric rectangle and it is not a dramatic silhouette cut either, it sits between the two. There is no lettering anywhere on the face: no signature, no logo, no title and no number. Eight inches on the tall side, a touch narrower across.
Designed By
ans.graffiti and 710 Love
Both credits come from the maker’s product page and nothing beyond them is claimed here. The first reads as one person’s working handle rather than a studio or a collective, which is why this row carries the Artist Series badge on top of its run of 150. The line work backs that read up. Outline weight swells and tapers the way a brush marker does in a hand, the hook marks doing the shading are the shorthand of somebody used to drawing letters and characters quickly, and the color is laid in flat behind the line instead of blended into it. That is a graffiti trained way of building a picture, and it is the reason a drawing of a baggie holds up as artwork rather than as a joke.
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Made in New Jersey Since 2009
Rubber That Already Had a First Life
Moodmats started with scraps from old wetsuits and discarded scuba and surf neoprene, material that was headed straight for a landfill. That became Lava Rubber, and Lava Rubber is what every Moodmat is cut from. The feedstock now comes from wetsuits, gaskets, weatherstripping, seat molds, and other clean scrap that gets collected or donated. More than two tons of it moves through the New Jersey shop every month, gets pressed into sheet stock, then die-cut and screen printed. Keeping that material out of the ground has been the point from day one.
Closed-Cell Neoprene
Closed-cell rubber does not drink up what you spill on it. Water, reclaim, and terp splash sit on the surface instead of soaking in, so a wipe with soapy water puts it back to new.
It Stays Put
The rubber grips whatever it is sitting on and grips whatever you set on top. A rig that would skate across a glass table or a finished desk stops moving the second it lands on a Moodmat.
Tough and Self-Extinguishing
Heat resistant, self-extinguishing, and built out of material that already survived a first life. This is not a printed coaster that curls after a month on the table.
Where People Actually Put These
It Does Not Have to Hold a Rig
A Moodmat protects a surface and grips what sits on it. Whether that thing is a banger, a camera, or nothing at all is up to you. They are called Moodmats for a reason. Pick the one that matches how you feel and put it wherever it belongs.
Rig and Glass Pad
The job it was built for. Keeps glass off hard surfaces and keeps hard surfaces off your glass.
Display Surface
Figures, models, controllers, dice, cameras, watches. Anything worth setting on something intentional.
Wall Art
Plenty of these never touch a table. Hang it, frame it, or pin it behind the setup and let the print do the work.
Desk and Everyday
Trivet for hot pans, landing spot for keys, pad under a pet bowl, cushion on a camp table.
Why It Matters
Runs End. Prints Do Not Come Back.
Moodmats print in runs, and runs end. Once a design is out, it is out. Artist collabs and drop exclusives regularly land in quantities of ten to twenty five pieces, which is why the people who collect these track drops, trade them, and frame the ones they will never put a rig on. If this specific print matters to you, the time to grab it is while it is still on the shelf.
One Hundred and Fifty Made, and No Number on the Piece
A hundred and fifty is the whole production for this design according to the maker. There is no inked figure anywhere on the printed face, we have no photo of the back of one, and we are not going to invent a position in the run, so the number we give you is the size of the run and nothing finer than that. One came in on our first wholesale order and one is what is on the shelf.
No Reprints
Moodmats does not go back and run a sold-out design again. When this one is gone from our shelf and theirs, the only way to get it is from somebody who already has one.
Worth Hanging
A print this limited does not have to earn its keep under a rig. Plenty of these end up on a wall, in a frame, or stacked with the rest of a collection.
The Details
Specs and Care
| Size | 8 inches on the tall side, approximate, slightly narrower across |
| Format | Flat single layer mat. No zipper, no seam, no depth, nothing goes inside |
| Shape | Rounded corner rectangle with a soft hand cut wobble to the outline |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Full color, flat cel fills under a heavy black marker outline | |
| Artist | ans.graffiti and 710 Love, credited by the maker |
| Edition | Run of 150, not individually numbered |
| Origin | Made in New Jersey, USA |
Wipe it down with warm water and a little dish soap, then let it air dry flat. That is the whole routine. Do not run it through a washing machine or a dryer, do not scrub the print with an abrasive pad, and do not rest a lit torch or a glowing-hot banger directly on the surface. Use a stand or a puck for anything still at temperature.
Straight Talk
Know Before You Buy
Upcycled Means Variation
The rubber is reclaimed scrap, so base color, speckle, and surface texture shift slightly from sheet to sheet. Two mats of the same design will not be photocopies of each other. That is how you know it is the real material and not virgin stock.
Heat Resistant, Not Heatproof
The rubber is self-extinguishing and handles warm gear without complaint. It is not a torch pad. Park anything still glowing on a proper stand or a quartz puck, not on the print.
This Is a Mat, Not a Bag
Said twice on purpose, because the product name is the maker’s and we have kept it. There is no zipper, no seam, no pocket and no depth anywhere on this item. It is one flat sheet of printed rubber, eight inches on the tall side, with a picture of a full zip seal pouch on it. You cannot put anything in it, close it, hang it from a strap or carry anything with it. If you want a bag, buy a bag. If you want a mat with a full baggie drawn on it, this is that.
The Print Runs to the Edge
There is no white margin between the artwork and the cut. That quarter inch of black around the picture is the bare cut face of the rubber, not a printed border, and it is a little uneven the whole way around because the cut wobbles. The corners are rounded off generously rather than squared. None of that is a defect, all of it is visible in the photo, and it is worth looking at the edge before you decide this is the one you want.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
The single image on this page is the manufacturer’s product shot rather than a picture of a mat in our hands. It is straight on, evenly lit and an accurate look at the print. It is not a picture of your sheet. The rubber underneath is reclaimed scrap, so base speckle and surface texture shift from mat to mat and the black around the cut will vary a little. One of these came in and our own photos are on the list.
Set the Mood
Recycled rubber, made in the USA, printed with art worth looking at. Free shipping on orders over $75, and every order ships from a veteran-owned small business.
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