Coloriginals Maui

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It's easy to make a payment to Coloriginals. We accept PayPal, and all major credit cards. Please click on the desired amount in the drop-down menu below. Follow the prompts until you reach the fill-out form for your method of payment. (You can bypass PayPal by clicking on "continue" and go on to select your credit card.) We appreciate your business!

Our Favorite Links

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*Free Stock Photography

(Free for commercial use, but check restrictions posted for each photo, there are exceptions.)
http://www.sxc.hu/

(All free for commercial and personal use.)
http://www.morguefile.com/

(Non-commercial use only.)
http://www.stockvault.net/

(States it’s free, no restrictions posted. All photos in vignette format - white background.)
http://www.freeclipartpictures.com

(Extensive resource for nature photos. Asks for photo credit. Includes pattern backgrounds for web sites.)
http://www.flowers.vg/

*Free Clip Art

(All free for commercial and personal use, asks you to provide a link back to them.)
http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/

(All free for commercial and personal use.)
http://www.hasslefreeclipart.com/

(All free for commercial and personal use.)
http://www.aaaclipart.com

(Free vectored graphics.)
http://qvectors.com/

(For personal, noncommercial, and not-for-profit use only as provided in their license agreement.)
http://www.barrysclipart.com/

(States usage is free for your web site.)
http://www.freebyte.com/gallery/

(A little hard to navigate and find images but is definitely free.)
http://openclipart.org/media/view/media/clip_art

(States all free for non-commercial use, HOWEVER this is all archival/antique engravings etc. and there is no copyright infringement issue. Great site from Florida’s Educational Technology Clearinghouse.)
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/

(All free for commercial and personal use, asks you to provide a link back to them and they provide a link code.)
http://www.ace-clipart.com

(Web buttons, banners etc. A little dated in some instances but very extensive. Includes a large selection of code for those ready to take on HTML.)
http://resources.bravenet.com

(Good background texture resource, but you have to filter through a lot of advertising to get there. Non-commercial use only.)
http://www.coolarchive.com/textures

*Free Sound Effects

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com

For Purchase

(Best and cheapest resource for clip art, photos and fonts.)
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-clip-art-and-design-on-cd-rom.html

(Huge library of fonts and photos; great to browse just for ideas; something for every budget.)
http://www.veer.com/products/illustration/

*Note: Always read the License Agreement and comply with the previsions set forth. If in doubt? Don't use it. There's plenty of stuff out there.

The T-Shirt as...

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...BILLBOARD

A walking, talking billboard at that. In our fast-forward, too-busy-to-read-the-newspaper world, advertising's last best success story—the printed T-shirt.

...ART

It is a serigraph after all. And although they're seldom signed and numbered, they are printed the same way, they're silk-screened. Silk has been replaced with monofiliment polyester but it is ultimately the same process that's been used for thousands of years. Silk-screening is the oldest form of production printing.

...POLITICAL STATEMENT

The lowly t-shirt is considered to have enough impact that one with a political message may not be worn near a polling place on election day.

...SAFETY GEAR

In OSHA orange or green, working a job site without one can result in a citation.

...UNDERWEAR

And here's where it all started not so very long ago. The U. S. military were the first to print t-shirts...over fifty years ago. A soldier's name got printed on the upper left chest. Sports franchises and resort destinations began offering simple one-color items to fans and visitors in the early seventies. The rest is history.

Twenty Years of T-Shirt Adventures

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"I want a goat, chickens, hay, nails, rabbits, wheel barrow, ducks, horses, cows, baby chicks, the building...let's see, rope, tools, um, I'm probably leaving something out but that's pretty much the idea. I've had a couple printers come by and I've given them this same list and I never hear back from them."

That was what led to my very first order from Makawao Feed back in 1987. I had moved to Maui a couple of years before after running a screen printing business in Portland, Oregon. I had big printing contracts with Nike, The Rose Festival, Portland Meadows and many other companies. After operating what amounted to a t-shirt assembly line 24/7 I was ready for the slower pace of Upcountry Maui. I hadn't even considered starting another screen printing business, but then I got to know the nice people at Makawao Feed and, well, I couldn't help myself.

Makawao Feed is just a part of Upcountry history now, having been transformed into an art gallery like so many other businesses in town. But every month I get to turn other people's dreams and ideas into beautiful t-shirt art and I still get a thrill when I see them being worn around the island.