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.

Surface Active: The New Zealand Nature T-shirt Company

September 28, 2021 / / 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

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Tree fern t-shirt

April 30, 2021 / / No Comments

Feel like a walk in the forest downunder? It’s hard to avoid the familiar sight of tree ferns, or punga, no matter where you go in New Zealand. Cool and bushy, this attractively umbrellarific all-over printed t-shirt design is repeated on the shirt back. Available in adult sizes XS–3XL on forest green or black shirts.

Shop using this link to the treefern design in our global store to receive a 5% discount, use promo code: “PERFEC”.

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