About Epic Desk — a teardown
What's actually under your mouse
Most desk mats are a stock print on a cheap blank. Ours are three deliberate layers under a drawing somebody was paid to make. Here is all of it, named.
Hover or tap a layer
Commissioned art
Drawn by a named human. Every time. Commissioning the art is step one.
Real people draw these.
No AI.
About sixty-five artists and licensed partners. Their names are on the product pages, the packaging, and the mat.
Founder note
we are champions of human creativity
Being a gamer my entire life, I was always disassisfied with the mousepads I was buying. Most were plain black, scratchy, falling apart after 3-6 months.
I knew I could do better. I launched Epic Desk in the height of COVID with one purpose, to make the most epic gaming mats on the planet.
5 years, 250+ official collaborations, and working with 60+ mega talented artists later, the journey has been nothing but extraordinary.
Together we are revolutionizing this industry, giving love to a product that traditionally has been neglected and more recently violated by AI slop.
Moving into the future, we are focused on championing human creativity with the most unique, creative, and human made designs that will continue to have the same great build quality you all are used to.
Thank you for the support throughout the years, and thank you for helping us in our quest toward progress.
Trey
Founder, Epic Desk
Clause one
No generated art. Not now, not later.
Every design we have ever printed came from a person who signed off on it and got paid for it. We do not prompt, we do not upscale, and we do not use AI to fill in a background nobody will look at closely.
If that ever changes, this page changes first.
Trey
Founder, Epic Desk
Five years, told in seasons
Every drop belongs to a season. This is the one running now, and the road that got here.
Current season
Blue Hour
Blue Hour — a full roster of creators, each with their own limited mat. Runs to 1 October. Running alongside it: licensed drops with Sleep Token, Attack on Titan and BWT Alpine F1.
2025
Creator Club opens. Roster passes twenty artists.
2023
First licensed partnership signed. Rust.
2022
First creator collab drop sells out.
2021
Trey makes a mat he'd actually want on his desk.
65
artists & licensed partners
0
AI-generated designs
15
categories in the catalogue
Now go look at the spec that matters. The art.
Every mat on the store credits the person who drew it. Lifetime warranty against manufacturing defects. Start with the art.
Make mats with us
Creators keep a permanent rank and a share of every mat they design. Applications are open.
Creators — Work with Us