Surface Active: The New Zealand Nature T-shirt Company

Birds-eye view portrait of Surface Active t-shirt’s design pARTners, Chrissie Terpstra and Shaun Waugh, wearing Harlequin and Jewelled Gecko tees, against a white background, shot in a studio in 1996.

September 28, 2021 / magentadotbrands.com / 9 Comments

Retrospective: The New Zealand Nature T-shirt Company—Surface Active, 1986–2021

South Brighton, Christchurch, September 2021

Pleased to announce Chrissie Terpstra and Shaun Waugh, the design pARTners behind Surface Active—The New Zealand Nature T-shirt Company—have opened their second, New Zealand based online store.

Global store: Use Code “PERFEC” for 5% off.
New Zealand store

Featured goods

Whale tail, Kaikoura t-shirt
🛍 Global store 🛍 NZ based store

Paua t-shirt
🛍 Global store 🛍 NZ-based store

Spotted shags t-shirt
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Jewelled gecko t-shirt
🛍 Global store 🛍 NZ-based store

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1988–Present Surface Active, Advertising and promotional, Advertising or lifestyle photography, Apparel, Consumer products, Digital illustration, Fashion photography, Fauna, Illustration, Originate brand name, Places, Screenprinting, Surface Active, T-Shirt print, Travel & tourism, Trees

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Margaret (Peggy) J Vincent
July 24, 2018 at 3:58 am

They have beautiful art work. I am still wearing my T-shirt I got in Nelson in 1998, now want new ones. 🙂 Well made.

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- magentadotbrands.com
  October 23, 2019 at 7:14 am
  
  Thank you. Am working on making a selection available again.
  
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  - magentadotbrands.com
    November 18, 2020 at 10:59 pm
    
    Hi Peggy. Just a quick note to advise I have just launched a new collection of our Surface Active t-shirt designs today. My latest blog post contains all the information about that.
    
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- magentadotbrands.com
  November 18, 2020 at 11:06 pm
  
  Thanks Peggy for your kind remarks. I am very pleased to inform you that you will find you can now buy new Surface Active teeshirts at our brand new Teespring store here: https://surface-active.myteespring.co/?pr=DISCOUNT Use the promo code “KIWIART” for a 15% discount. This launch promotion is good until January 5 2021. For more information please check my latest blog post about the launch of our store.
  
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Ronit shachal
October 16, 2019 at 4:26 am

Dear sirs
Ehere can i buy the Adelie penguins Antartica shirt?
Do they have a web site?

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- magentadotbrands.com
  October 23, 2019 at 7:10 am
  
  Hi Ronit,
  
  I am working on new artwork at present. Will advise you of availability soon.
  
  All the best,
  Shaun Waugh
  
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  - magentadotbrands.com
    November 18, 2020 at 10:44 pm
    
    Hi Ronit, have just launched the new Surface Active teespring store in my latest blog post. All the best, Shaun Waugh.
    
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- magentadotbrands.com
  November 18, 2020 at 11:02 pm
  
  Hi Ronit. I am pleased to inform you that you will find you can now buy the Adelie penguins Antarctica shirt at our new Surface Active Teespring store here https://surface-active.myteespring.co/listing/new-adelie-penguins-antarctica?product=371?pr=DISCOUNT. Use promotional code “KIWIART” for a discount of 15%. This launch promotion is good until January 5 2021. For more information please check my latest blog post about the launch of our store.
  
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