Squirm Moodmat
A melting brain and skull ghoul in fluorescent cel color, die cut to its own dripping outline on twelve inches of recycled rubber. UV reactive under a blacklight, run of 75.
The Print
A Head That Did Not Survive Whatever Happened To It
Start at the top, because that is the order it is coming apart in. The crown of the skull is gone and the brain is out in the open, hot magenta with lavender highlight strokes, drawn as fat looping gyri under a heavy black contour. Below it a horizontal band of ropy purple coils spills sideways, reading as worms or as spilled cord depending on how charitable you feel. The middle third is the skull itself in lime and kelly green: brow ridge, two sunken sockets filled with deep burgundy and rimmed underneath by thick orange crescents, a heart shaped nasal opening with a magenta interior, cheekbones, and a row of pale yellow upper teeth. A severed chartreuse ear hangs off the right side, helix and lobe and a few dark blemish spots included, next to a wedge of hot pink striated muscle fiber with a bundle of purple fibers under it.
The bottom third is where it stops being a face. Everything under the jaw is a wide pour of melting orange flesh streaked with tan highlights, and floating in the pour are two loose chartreuse eyeballs with black pupils and flame shaped veining, a detached lower denture with visible roots sitting over pink gums, a royal blue drip, and a big pink tongue lolling out of the middle of it. The whole piece is flat cel fill: solid spot colors, black keyline throughout, black hatch marks for shading, no halftone and no gradient anywhere. The die traces that outline rather than a circle, so the top is domed over the brain, there is a slight inward waist at the coil band, then a wide flare through the melt ending in lobed drip fingers along the bottom with one asymmetric finger reaching out to the right. It is slightly wider than it is tall, roughly twelve inches across and about eleven and a half down. Bare black rubber carries on past the keyline for a quarter to three eighths of an inch, opening to about an inch where the cut bridges a deep notch between drips. There is no lettering on the front at all: no title, no signature, no date.
Under a blacklight the ranking changes completely. The orange melt is the biggest mover and goes hot lemon yellow, brighter than anything else on the piece, with the tan streaks inside it running pure yellow. The green skull swings cool into a strong teal and cyan green, the chartreuse eyeballs and the severed ear go mint and aqua, and the pale teeth read bright lime. The magenta brain stays pink and lifts a little toward salmon, its lavender highlights turning periwinkle, while the purple coils and the purple fiber bundle hold violet at moderate brightness. The pinks in the tongue, the gums and the muscle hatch stay pink and dull slightly. Three things go the other way, and they are worth knowing before you plug a lamp in. The black keyline and the bare rubber rim do not respond at all. The burgundy socket interiors sink to a very dark plum and nearly vanish. The royal blue drip darkens to a deep navy, which makes it the one element on the mat that is dimmer under the lamp than it is in daylight.
That is the entire lighting story, and it is worth being exact about where it ends. This print is UV reactive and there is a real blacklight photograph behind every sentence above. It is not a glow in the dark print. No lights out photo of this design exists, the maker does not claim a glow, and we are not going to describe one we have never seen.
Designed By
Born Ready Designs
Credited on the maker’s product page as @bornreadydesigns, and that is the whole of what we claim. The handle reads as a studio rather than one person’s name, which is the reason this row carries a run number on the badge instead of an artist series tag. The credit is real either way and it belongs on the page. The drawing matches the rest of the work we have handled under that mark: heavy black line, flat saturated color, and no interest whatsoever in keeping a cartoon in one piece.
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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.
Seventy Five Made, and Nine of Them Are Here
Seventy five is the entire production of this design according to the maker, and that makes it the smallest run we have ever listed. Nine came in on this order. That is about twelve percent of everything that exists, sitting on one shelf, which is a fact worth stating plainly rather than dressing up. The maker also lists the design as numbered. We have no back of mat photo, we have not opened our units, and we will not invent a position in a run, so the figure on this page is the size of the run and nothing finer than that.
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 artwork, asymmetric melting outline |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, flat cel fill on a black keyline | |
| UV | UV reactive, verified from a blacklight photo. No glow claim |
| Artist | Born Ready Designs, credited by the maker |
| Edition | Run of 75, numbered by the maker, position not quoted |
| 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 That Is the Only Lighting Claim
A blacklight photograph of this design exists and the copy above describes it color by color from that photo. A lights out photograph does not exist, the maker’s page does not claim a glow, and we are not going to describe one. If you want a print that keeps working after the lamp goes off, this is not that mat. Under the lamp it is one of the loudest things in the order.
Die-Cut Means Irregular Edges
The cut traces the melting head, so the outline is lumpy on purpose and the piece runs slightly wider than it is tall, roughly twelve inches across and about eleven and a half down. Twelve inches is the widest point rather than a uniform footprint. Bare rubber runs a quarter to three eighths of an inch outside the print most of the way around and opens to about an inch where the cut bridges a notch between drip lobes. Measure your space if it is tight.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
Both images on this page, the normal light shot and the blacklight shot, 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 underneath is reclaimed scrap and base speckle shifts from sheet to sheet. There is no photograph of the back of one either, ours or theirs, so nothing on this page claims anything about what is printed back there. 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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