Winter Flower Moodmat
A melting cartoon face with its features swapped, sitting in a dense hand drawn flower bed on eight inches of black recycled rubber. Melty Bros artist series, run of 250.
The Print
A Face Coming Apart in a Flower Bed
The face takes the middle and it is built to be wrong. It is filled flat orange, outlined in a thick chrome yellow that lifts it off everything behind it, and drawn over in heavy black ink. Where the left eye should sit there is a second mouth instead, pink gums and pointed white teeth, grinning on its own schedule. The right side keeps one enormous teardrop shaped eye: white sclera, orange rim, black pupil with two white catchlights sitting in it. Under those is a bulbous rounded nose, and under that the main grin, a wide row of squared off white teeth over more pink gums. The chin never resolves into a jaw. It runs off the bottom edge of the mat in long yellow and orange drips.
Everything around it is flowers, and they are drawn with more care than the joke in the middle strictly requires. A red poppy, a teal anemone, a red spiked coneflower, white dogwood, roses in purple and yellow, blue and orange starflowers, small mushrooms and green tendrils threading through the gaps. Two white and yellow striped bees are working the bed. There are tiny hearts tucked into it. There is one serrated seven point fan leaf in purple and teal, which on a site like this one needs no further introduction. Packed corner to corner with no white anywhere, the flower bed is the thing that keeps this from being a single gag on a square of rubber.
The print is flat cel fill with marker style shading, white highlight strokes laid over the top and fine black hatching down in the shadows. Registration is clean the whole way, with no misregistration halo along the yellow outline where it would show first. Eight inches square, straight cut edges, all four corners square with a slight wobble that tells you a person cut it rather than a machine. The bare rubber rim measures a fifth of an inch or so left and right and a little more top and bottom. There is no lettering anywhere on the face: no title, no signature, no date and no inked number. Whatever numbering the maker does on this design, it is not on the front of it.
A Collaboration
Melty Bros, A Brooks and Vincent Gordon
Credited by the maker as Melty Bros, @abrooksart x vincentgordon, which is two named individuals working under one banner. Both are named here because the maker names both, and nothing further is claimed about either of them. What the image supports is that the piece is drawn in one consistent hand rather than two styles bolted together, and that whoever handled the flower bed took it as seriously as whoever handled the face. Collaborations often read as one artist doing the character and the other filling in behind it. This one does not.
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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.
Two Hundred Fifty Made, and No Number We Can Quote
Two hundred fifty is the whole production for this design per the maker, who also states that it is numbered. We have not seen a number. There is no inked figure anywhere on the printed face in the maker’s photograph, we have no photo of the back of one, and the mat on our shelf is still exactly as it arrived. So the run size is what we quote and we are not going to invent a position inside it. If the number matters to you, ask before you buy and we will go and look at ours.
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 square, approximate |
| Shape | Square, straight cut edges, hand cut corners |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink | |
| Artwork | Hand drawn. No lettering, signature or number on the printed face |
| Artists | Melty Bros, A Brooks and Vincent Gordon |
| Edition | Run of 250. The maker states the design is 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 Number Is the Maker’s Claim, Not Ours
The maker’s own page says this design is numbered and that the run is 250. We are passing that along and we are not adding to it. No inked figure appears anywhere on the front of the mat in the only photograph that exists, there is no photo of the back of one, and ours has not been unwrapped. Nobody here is going to tell you which of the 250 you are getting, because nobody here knows. Ask before you buy and we will go and look.
Square Means Square, and the Print Runs Off It
Eight inches square is a true eight by eight rather than a widest point, which makes this the most predictable footprint we carry. The trade is that the artwork bleeds to all four edges with no printed border, so the narrow bare rim you can see is just where the blade landed and it varies a little side to side, a fifth of an inch or so left and right and slightly more top and bottom. The corners are cut square by hand and they have a small wobble in them.
These Are the Maker’s Photos For Now
The single image on this page is the manufacturer’s product shot rather than a picture of the mat in our hands. It is a clean studio photo on white and it is an accurate look at the print. It is not a picture of the exact sheet. The rubber is reclaimed scrap, so the base black and the crumb speckle showing through it shift from mat to mat, and on this design the rubber is the background, so that variation sits right in the middle of the artwork rather than around the edge of it. One on hand and our own photo is 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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