HEADY UV TEDDY Moodmat
A tie dye bear head with flat black spiral eyes, die cut on eight inches of recycled rubber. Shurlok Holm artist series, UV reactive under a blacklight, run of 420.
The Print
One Head, Two Spirals, Tongue Out
The whole mat is a face and the face is doing exactly one thing. A bear head seen front on, skull close to a circle, two large rounded ears set high and wide with an inner ear line curled into each like a comma. Two heavy black brow ridges arc over the eyes, and the eyes are not eyes. They are flat black spirals of roughly three turns each, winding inward, one either side of the muzzle. Below them the muzzle is wide and rounded, carrying a small solid black nose and a black W for a mouth, and a rounded tongue lobe drops below the chin and past the outline of the head. Nothing about the drawing is neutral. A bear with spirals for eyes and its tongue out reads the way it is meant to read.
Color is airbrushed rather than laid in flat, which is unusual on a screen print this size and is the second thing you notice. Neon yellow runs across the forehead and both cheeks. Hot pink blotches sit on the brows, inside both ears, up the left cheek and across the nose. Cyan works through the temples and the lower left of the face and blends out toward near white. There are no hard color separations anywhere in it and no halftone dot pattern at this resolution, so the tie dye reads as one continuous wash sitting under the linework rather than as a stack of screens. Every line over the top of that wash is a thick black stroke of consistent weight. Soft underneath, hard on top, and that contrast is the entire design.
Put a blacklight on it and every colored area of the face lights. The neon yellow across the forehead, cheeks and muzzle converts to bright fluorescent green. The hot pink goes fluorescent magenta. The cyan and the near white areas come up as a blue to blue green glow. Nothing colored goes dead, which is not always how these work out and is worth stating plainly, because the usual complaint about a UV print is the one big area that will not fire. What does stay dark here is all of the black. The outline, the brow ridges, the spiral eyes, the nose and the mouth line all read as unlit, so under a lamp you get a glowing face held inside a black cage of linework, and the spirals go from being the darkest thing on the mat to being the only holes in it. That is UV reactive behaviour and it needs the lamp running. There is no lights out photograph of this design, so glow in the dark is not something we are claiming.
Designed By
Shurlok Holm
Credited by the maker on the product page as Shurlok Holm, a named individual, and that credit is the reason this row carries an Artist Series badge rather than falling through to its run number the way a studio or collective credit would. Nothing further is claimed about him here. What the print itself supports is a specific working method kept deliberately apart: a continuous airbrushed blend underneath with no banding and no dot pattern in it, one weight of heavy black line over the top, and nothing in between. No shading, no halftone, no hard color separation. It is a harder way to get a clean screen print than building the image out of flat spot colors, and on an eight inch piece the blend still holds together.
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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.
Four Hundred Twenty Made, None of Them Numbered
Four hundred twenty is the entire production for this design according to the maker. No hand inked figure appears anywhere on the printed face in either photograph, we have no picture of the back of one, and both of ours are exactly as they arrived, so the run size is what we quote and we are not going to invent a position inside it. Moodmats rotates artist collaborations out when a run finishes and does not go back and print a design a second time. Two on the shelf here.
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 at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the bear head silhouette, ears and tongue included |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, airbrushed tie dye blend under heavy black line | |
| UV | UV reactive, verified from a blacklight photograph |
| Artist | Shurlok Holm, credited by the maker |
| Edition | Run of 420, 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.
UV Reactive, and Only UV Reactive
A blacklight photograph of this design exists, which is the reason there is a UV claim on this page. No lights out photograph exists, so there is no glow in the dark claim, and the two are different properties that get mixed up constantly. One needs a lamp running and shifts the colors while it does. The other needs a properly dark room and gives back a charge the pigment stored. This print is verified for the first. Nobody here has seen it do the second and we are not going to tell you it does.
Eight Inches Includes the Ears
The cut follows the head: around the round skull, up and over both ears, and down below the chin to take in the tongue lobe. Eight inches is the widest point across that outline rather than a square footprint, and the ear tips and the tongue are the thinnest sections of rubber on the piece. This is a small mat. It suits a banger, a puck and a torch, or a spot on a shelf, better than it suits a full rig station. Measure before you assume, and set anything heavy over the skull rather than out on an ear.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
Both images on this page, the studio shot on white and the blacklight shot on a purple board, are the manufacturer’s product photography rather than pictures of a mat in our hands. Read them as an accurate look at the print and at how it behaves under a lamp, not as a picture of the exact sheet you will get. The rubber is reclaimed scrap, and on this design the lighter airbrushed areas are where base speckle reads through the ink most. Two on hand 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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