Nuggtar Moodmat
A five eyed crystal fanged monster grinning out of a field of acid green, drawn in dense pen work by Rob Israel and die cut to its own silhouette on twelve inches of recycled rubber.
The Print
Five Eyes, a Flower Full of Eyeball, and Crystal for Claws
There is no scene here and no lettering. One creature fills the whole mat and stares straight out at you. It is squat and pot bellied, sitting with its head cocked to one side, and the first thing you register is the grin: ear to ear, packed with long tapering white fangs top and bottom, thin pale blue saliva strung off nearly every one of them, and a long magenta tongue hanging out, looping down and curling back over the belly. The face carries five eyes at once. One is a huge lemon yellow almond with an orange red slit pupil. Three are small cherry red beads in a row above the nose. The fifth is a yellow orange eyeball on a stalk growing out of the snout.
Two more eyeballs grow off the body on green stalks. One sits bare at the left edge. The other is held up in a clawed hand inside a ring of pale blue and white petals, so what you are looking at is an eyeball blooming out of a flower. Sprays of pale blue crystal shards erupt from the head, the shoulders, the knuckles, the spine and the toes, and the claws themselves are drawn as crystal daggers rather than nails. The palette stays tight: chartreuse and lime on the belly and limbs, deeper teal on the brow, jaw and spine, a dark charcoal ground inside the silhouette, and the magenta tongue and red bead eyes as the only warm notes in the whole piece.
The drawing is where the money went. Hand inked hatching and stippling cover every surface, colored in with streaky alcohol marker, and the screen print reproduces it down to the stroke instead of flattening it into blocks. There is no UV in it, so this is a straight full color standard ink job. A small magenta signature sits at the lower right of the artwork. It is too small to read in our photos, so we are telling you it is there rather than telling you what it says.
Designed By
Rob Israel
The back signs @ROB ISRAEL, stacked in white drippy horror lettering of his own drawing, next to an x and the moodmats wordmark. That handle is the whole of the credit on this piece and we are not going to write a biography we cannot source. What we can point at is the work itself: a full bleed creature portrait with no background and no lettering to hide behind, built out of hand inked line and stipple, in the lowbrow monster tradition that runs from hot rod decals through psychedelic poster art.
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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.
No Number on It, and None Claimed
There is no number box on the back, no denominator, no run size printed anywhere and no live sale line. That means we cannot tell you whether this design is open stock or a short run, and we are not going to guess in either direction to make the listing sound better. The tier on this page is earned by the named artist alone and nothing further is claimed. What we can tell you is that the back carries the artist’s own handle and that one of these is on our 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 | 12 inches at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the creature outline, deeply lobed and irregular |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artist | Rob Israel, signed on the back as @ROB ISRAEL |
| Edition | No run size stated, no number box on the piece |
| 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.
No UV on This One
Standard ink, full color, no reactive application anywhere in the print. A blacklight does nothing to it. Plenty of Moodmats do light up and this is not one of them, and we would rather say so up front than have you plug in a lamp and wonder what went wrong.
Irregular Edges, and Some Thin Spots
The cut follows the creature, so the listed twelve inches is the widest span rather than a uniform footprint. The narrowest sections of rubber are the eyeball stalk, the outer flower petals and the crystal claw tips, and they should be handled the way you would handle any narrow strip of rubber. Measure your space before you commit if it is tight.
Photos Are of This Exact Mat
The front and back shots on this page are the piece on our shelf rather than a maker product image. The back is worth a look because it is where the artist handle is printed and where you can see for yourself that there is no number box on it. The rubber underneath is reclaimed scrap, so the base speckle on this one is 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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