About us
Our story
Our journey began in 1999 with the founding of a fishing guide service. By 2006, we started designing T-shirts as souvenirs for our clients. In 2011, when our local screen printer went out of business, we decided to take matters into our own hands and taught ourselves the craft of screen printing from scratch.
What started as "cute T-shirts" made for our daughter blossomed into Wimini. We opened our first shop in Kailua in 2013, followed by a second location in Honolulu in 2017.
The "global disruption" in 2020 shifted our path. We closed our Kailua shop, and in 2025, we officially closed the doors to our Honolulu location.
Now, we’ve moved our operations to a studio nestled in the mountains. We’ve become a "grandma and grandpa team," still hand-printing our own designs while playing with our granddaughter. Recently, we’ve even started making short animation movies just for her!
We still keep going!
1999年にバス釣りガイドを創業。2006年にお客さんのお土産用にTシャツをデザインし販売開始。2011年にそれまで頼んでいたスクリーンプリント屋さんの廃業をきっかけに、スクリーンプリントを独学ではじめる。娘に作ったTシャツをきっかけに”かわいいTシャツ”のWIMINIを創業。2013年12月にカイルアに店舗を構える。2017年にホノルルに２店舗目を開店。例の騒動をきっかけにカイルアの店舗を閉め、2025年にホノルル店も閉店。
ババアとジジイになった現在、山の中のスタジオで孫の面倒と庭仕事、その他雑用をしながら、いまだに手作業でTシャツとバックを印刷しています。最近は孫に観せるための短編アニメーション動画制作をはじめました。
そこんとこ、よろしくぅ！
Our brand name WIMINI is a coined word. When we were deciding the brand name, we shuffled letters from the name of native Hawaiian honeycreeper “IIWI” and added the first letter of "MIND" and "NATURE". From there, WIMINI was born.
MAHALO,
Contact：info@wiminihawaii.com