Artist
Learn more about local Toronto artists and how they use services from Hot Pop Factory to create their artwork.
Ben Johnston Renders Type in 3D
While it’s hard to choose favorites, Ben Johnston has been one of the collaborators we’ve most enjoyed working with over the years – he always comes to us with interesting projects and design challenges.
Hot Pop at Maker Festival
We love Maker Festival because it’s a place where robots, craft, science, and digital fabrication come together. Like no other event in Toronto it unites the young and old, and novices and experts, in a celebration of learning and collaboration through making.
Product Customization and Kickstarter Success
We asked Alex Commons, one of our amazing startup customers, about his product customization and Kickstarter journey.
Patricia Wong Jewelry Design Transforms Paper and Plastic into Gemstones
Learn how Patricia Wong is pushing her jewelry design practice to entwine the opportunities that new tools such as laser cutting provide with the traditional handcrafting techniques taught at schools.
How Lesli Ink Turned Laser Cut Illustrations into Keepsakes
Lesli Ink partnered with us at Hot Pop Factory so we could bridge between the digital and the physical and produce laser cut illustrations.
New Year, New Laser Cut Projects
Greetings and well wishes from Hot Pop! The holiday break came and left, but if you’re anything like us time off isn’t a break from…
Personalized Wooden Laser Cut Gift Tags Become Ornaments
Amy from Love on Sunday collaborated with us to create elegant Laser Cut Gift Tags that commemorated each of her loved ones through the extended experience of gift giving, and gathering around a Christmas tree.
How to Turn a Hand Sketch into a Wearable Laser Cut Bowtie!
The weather may be cold, but advent calendars are now open and the countdown to Christmas is on! If you’re anything like us, you love…
Our Beautiful City of Craft
November is when we are pumped for the holidays. It’s…. production time at the shop and we are running 2 shifts this year to make…
Event Designer Leanne Kelly Does Day of the Dead
Leanne Kelly is a maker, dreamer and designer. She is Toronto’s go to person for everything from otherworldly wedding experiences to new age beer bottle design and she also happens to be one of our favourite people to work with.
A Look Back at Maker Museum!
For this year’s Maker Festival we created a Maker Museum to showcase some of the unique and interesting products our clients are designing with 3D printing…
3D Printed and Laser Cut Jewelry Incorporates Traditional and Modern Geometries
Learn about 3D Printed and Laser Cut Jewelry collections that were prototyped and manufactured at Hot Pop Factory.