Moon Wizard Moodmat
A star robed wizard reclining on a crescent moon with a churchwarden pipe, printed on an eight inch round of recycled rubber where the night sky is bare unprinted stock. Art by Phil Siegel, run of 150.
The Print
A Wizard on a Crescent, and a Sky Made of Nothing
Start with the thing that is not there. The night sky behind the wizard is not printed. It is the bare black rubber of the mat, left alone, with yellow stars of varying size and three flat light blue cartoon clouds laid over it. Everything else on the piece is ink and that field is not, which means the deepest part of the picture is the material rather than the print. On reclaimed stock that is a real decision rather than a shortcut, because the base carries speckle and grain from a first life and a designer has to be willing to let it show. Here it reads as depth in a night sky. Less ink on the sheet, more of the mat visible, and a black that does not sit flat.
The composition wraps. A pale yellow olive crescent moon sweeps around the left side and along the bottom of the circle, cupping the whole scene, its craters drawn as thin open outlines rather than filled. The wizard reclines back into the inside of that curve in a deep indigo robe and a matching tall pointed hat, both covered in small yellow five pointed stars and crescents, with a light blue collar and cuffs and a long curling white beard and hair. He is smoking a long brown churchwarden pipe with a thin grey curl of smoke rising off the bowl. He is not casting anything and he is not going anywhere. It is a picture of somebody comfortable.
The name PHIL SIEGEL runs in fat rounded olive display capitals, curving down the inside of the crescent and following its arc. It is the artist’s own name, set as part of the drawing rather than tucked into a corner as a signature, and it is one of the few designs in this catalog where the credit is a design element you would notice before you knew what it was. We have left it exactly where he put it.
The rest is clean black cartoon outline and flat colour fill with no gradients anywhere, which is what suits screen printing on rubber. There is no reactive ink in the print, so a blacklight leaves this one alone. Eight inches across, a true circular cut, standard ink, full colour.
Designed By
Phil Siegel
Credited by the maker on their own product page and, unusually, credited on the face of the mat as well. His name is set in fat rounded olive capitals curving along the inside of the crescent, which makes it a piece of the composition rather than a mark in a corner. Beyond the credit we make no claims about him, because we have nothing verified to claim. What the drawing shows is a hand that trusts flat colour and a clean outline and does not reach for a gradient to make a night sky work.
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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.
A Run of One Hundred Fifty, Quoted From the Maker
One hundred fifty is the entire production for this design according to the maker’s own product page. There is no hand inked number on the piece and we have no photograph of the back to check, 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 again. We have one.
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 across, approximate |
| Shape | Round, true circular cut with a consistent black edge |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink, inks sit slightly proud of the rubber | |
| Background | Unprinted black rubber read as night sky, not a printed black |
| Layout | Art inset, with a bare rubber ring roughly half an inch wide outside the printed circle |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artist | Phil Siegel, credited by the maker and printed into the artwork |
| Edition | Run of 150 per the maker, 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.
The Artist’s Name Is Part of the Print
PHIL SIEGEL is set into the artwork, curving along the inside of the crescent moon, in the same weight and finish as the rest of the drawing. It is not a watermark and it is not coming off. If you want an unsigned face to hang, this is not that piece. We think it is the better version, because a credit built into a composition ages better than one hidden in a corner, but you should know it is there before it arrives.
No UV on This One
Standard ink, full colour, no reactive application. A blacklight does nothing to it. A night sky full of stars is exactly the design people assume glows, so it is worth being blunt: this one does not. Plenty of Moodmats do and we will tell you which ones.
One Photo, Front Only
The image on this page is our own shot of the mat rather than a maker product photo. The gap is that we have not photographed the back, so nothing here claims anything about back of mat markings, and the run of 150 comes off the maker’s product page rather than off a number box we have seen ourselves. The rubber also shifts in base speckle from sheet to sheet, and on this design the bare rubber is half the picture, so expect your night sky to be its own.
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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