Triceralost Moodmat
A low-poly triceratops skull in full spectrum color, die cut to the horns on twelve inches of recycled rubber. Art by Dominik Lupo.
The Print
A Dinosaur Built Out of Triangles
The subject is a triceratops head seen from the side, facing left, and the drawing is entirely geometric. Every surface is broken into flat triangular panels with heavy black seams between them, the way a low-poly model looks before anyone smooths it. The triangles get small and tight around the eye and the beak where the detail needs to live, and open up into big lazy planes across the frill where they do not.
The color runs as a spectrum rather than a palette. Red and orange sit along the top edge of the frill, drop into yellow across the brow and the horn base, pass through green at the cheek and the middle of the frill, then finish in blue and deep violet down at the jaw and the lower plate. Because the facets are flat, each triangle takes one step of that gradient and the whole thing ends up looking like it was assembled out of colored glass rather than painted.
The bone is what makes it work. Both brow horns, the nose horn, the beak and the ring of spikes around the frill are left white with only the facet lines drawn in, so they push forward hard against the color and the eye reads the skull first and the rainbow second. There is no UV in this print. It is a straight full color job that does not need a gimmick.
Designed By
Dominik Lupo
Lupo’s mark is screened on the back of every one of these next to the moodmats logo: a graffiti-style tag with a small line-art character device beside it. The geometric approach on this print is his whole thing, animals rebuilt as faceted planes with a spectrum running across them, and it suits recycled rubber better than most styles do because flat color panels sit cleanly on a speckled surface.
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 150, and No Number on the Piece
This design was made in a run of 150, which is a real limit but a wider one than the drop pieces in this batch. The back carries the artist mark and the moodmats logo with no numbered box, so there is no hand-inked figure to quote and we are not going to invent one. What we can tell you is the run size and the fact that 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 | 12 inches at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the artwork, horns and frill spikes included |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artist | Dominik Lupo |
| Edition | Run of 150, not individually numbered |
| Release | Drop release, not a regular catalog item |
| 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. A blacklight does nothing to it. Several Moodmats in this drop do glow, this print is not one of them, and we would rather say so up front than have you plug in a lamp and wonder.
Die-Cut Means Irregular Edges
The outline follows the skull, so you get three horn points, a hooked beak and a row of spikes along the frill instead of a clean rectangle. The listed 12 inches is the widest point, not a uniform footprint, and the horns are the thinnest part of the piece. Handle those the way you would any narrow section of rubber.
This Is the Exact Mat You Get
One of these exists at this shop. The photos are of the actual piece in hand, front and back, so what you see is what ships, speckle and all.
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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