Lion Collection : PEZ Moodmat
The cool pastel colorway of the doodle lion, in sky blue, cyan, pink and lavender over a dark navy outline. Die cut on eight inches of recycled rubber, art by Danny Steinman, run of 200.
The Print
Same Lion, Run Cold
Everything structural is unchanged. The lion head is cut from the same die, the mane is built from the same packed field of spirals, teardrops, small eyes, ribbons and curls, the white aviators sit in the same place with lettering across both lenses, and the hand lettered line about peace, love and unity is still worked into the lower left with a small 420 opposite it. If you laid the two mats on top of each other, every line would land on the same line. Only the ink changed.
What the ink changed is the temperature. Sky blue, cyan, pink, lavender, lime and olive replace the orange, gold and red, and the face drops from tan to a pale greyish cream that sits closer to stone than to fur. The dark navy outline carries over untouched, and that is the decision holding the whole thing up. Six pale colors laid against each other without a hard boundary would blend into a single wash on speckled rubber. Fenced in by navy, each one stays exactly where it was put, and the mane keeps the depth it had in the warm version instead of flattening out.
The effect is a genuinely different animal. The warm colorway reads as heat, festival, fire in the mane. This one reads cooler and slightly eerie, more like an ice sculpture of the same drawing, and the pale face pushes it further because the lion stops looking like a lion and starts looking like a mask of one. There is no reactive ink here, so a blacklight does nothing to it despite the palette suggesting it might. The warm colorway of this same die is listed separately as Lion Collection : OG.
Designed By
Danny Steinman
Credited by name on the maker’s page, so he is named here and nothing further about him is claimed. This colorway is the better argument for the way he works than the warm one is, because it shows the drawing was built to survive being recolored. The outline does the structural job and the fills are free to move, which is how a single piece of dense line work turns into two products without either of them feeling like the leftovers.
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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 colorway. The warm version carries its own count, so this is not two hundred split between them. 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 does not go back and print a design again once a run is finished. We have one of these, and one of the warm ones.
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 | Cool. Sky blue, cyan, pink, lavender, lime and olive |
| 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
Personal size, not a full station. One piece fits comfortably. A rig, a jar, a torch and a tool all at once do not. If you want a surface to work on rather than a spot to set something down, the twelve inch mats in the same batch are the ones to look at.
Pastel Shows Wear Sooner
Pale ink on a dark speckled base is less forgiving than saturated ink is. Reclaim, ash and resin will show against sky blue and cream well before they would show against the warm version of this same print. Wipe it with a damp cloth as you go and it stays clean, but go in knowing which of the two colorways is the low maintenance one.
No UV, Despite the Palette
Standard ink, full color, no reactive application. Neon looking pastels on black rubber is exactly the combination people expect to light up under a lamp, and this one does not. A blacklight leaves it where it is.
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, and read the pastels as approximate: soft colors are the hardest thing for a product photo to reproduce honestly. Our own photos are on the list.
Set the Mood
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