Lion Collection : OG Moodmat
A doodle filled lion head in warm orange, gold and red, wearing lettered white aviators. Die cut on eight inches of recycled rubber, art by Danny Steinman, artist series run of 200.
The Print
Warm Side of the Pair
Start with the face, because it is the calmest part of the whole piece. Flat tan, simple nose, a slight set to the mouth, and a pair of white aviator sunglasses sitting across it with lettering worked into both lenses. Everything about the face is held quiet and simple on purpose, which is the only reason the rest of the mat is survivable. Give this drawing a detailed face as well and it would collapse into noise.
Then the mane, which is where all the work went. It is built entirely out of dense doodle: tight spirals, stacked teardrops, small open eyes, ribbons, waves and curls that grow out of other curls, packed so close that no ground color shows anywhere. This is the warm colorway, so it runs orange into gold into red with lime green cutting through it, and every shape is separated by a dark navy outline that keeps two saturated neighbors from turning into mud. Follow any one line far enough and it turns into something else. The effect is closer to a tattoo flash sheet folded into the shape of a lion than to an illustration of an animal.
Two small pieces of hand lettering finish it. A line about peace, love and unity runs down through the lower left of the mane, set in a loose hand rather than a typeface, and a small 420 sits opposite it on the lower right. Both are worked into the doodle rather than laid on top of it, so you find them on the second or third look instead of the first. No reactive ink is in the print, so a blacklight leaves this one alone. The same die printed in a cool pastel palette is listed separately as Lion Collection : PEZ, and the two were plainly meant to sit next to each other.
Designed By
Danny Steinman
Credited by name on the maker’s page, which is why he is named here, and nothing else about him is claimed. The drawing tells you the approach on its own: a simple recognisable silhouette used as a container, then filled to the last square millimetre with small marks, with a hard outline color holding every shape apart. It is patient work, and the discipline is in the face he left plain rather than in the mane he filled.
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On Video
See It In Hand
Photos only get you so far. This is the actual piece, shot in our hands, so you can see the scale, the finish and how it behaves in real light before you buy it.
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.
A Run of Two Hundred
Two hundred is the whole production for this design, and that count covers this warm colorway on its own rather than the pair. There is no hand inked number anywhere on the piece, so the run size is what we quote and we are not going to invent a position inside it. Moodmats rotates artist collaborations out of the catalog when a run finishes and does not go back and print a design again. We have one of these.
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 lion head and mane, irregular outline |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artist | Danny Steinman |
| Colorway | Warm. Orange, gold, red and lime green |
| Edition | Run of 200, 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.
Eight Inches Is Small for a Mat
This is a personal size piece rather than a full station mat. A small rig, a jar, a torch and a tool will not all fit on it at once. Think of it as a spot for one piece rather than a work surface for a whole setup, and if you want something you can spread out on, look at the twelve inch mats in the same batch.
No UV on This One
Standard ink, full color, no reactive application in the print. A blacklight does nothing to it. The colors are loud enough in daylight that people assume otherwise, so it is worth saying plainly before you set a lamp over it.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
One of these is on our shelf and the image on this page is not a picture of it. It is the manufacturer product shot, so read it as an accurate look at the print rather than at the exact sheet. Reclaimed rubber shifts in base speckle from mat to mat. Our own photos are on the list.
Set the Mood
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