Hot Pop Factory Projects

Last year was a banner year we completed over over 1,400 Hot Pop Factory projects, launched Hot Pop Goods with the release of a collection of brandable wood wares, and strengthened community relations with a roster of amazing organizations including Luminato, Maker Festival, the One of a Kind Show & Sale, The Stop Community Food Centre, and Toronto Design Offsite Festival. We’d like to extend a big thank you to everybody we worked with last year!

While it’s impossible to choose ‘favourites’ amongst the thousand plus projects we produced last year, several do stand out. We were honoured to make a small contribution to Canada 150! by designing 10,000 lapel pins (and their packaging) for the sesquicentennial – those pins were given to esteemed honorees from coast to coast

3D Printing, ROM Plant Pot, Canada 150 Years lapel pins, and design for Purch

The Wishing Bird was a design close to our heart that we produced in-house for our ambitious clients; beyond its handsome wireframe aesthetic, we felt it was a warm little totem that hopefully inspired some positive thinking in its recipients. We were also proud of our work reinventing Nikoleta & Associates’ sales tools, and, on the precision side, it was rewarding to execute technically demanding projects like the custom mazes that Beau’s used to mark the release of a new IPA and the insane intricacy of Shirley Liang’s avant garde garments.

Laser Cut Wishing Bird – photo by xliangdesign

Laser cut models

Beyond the thrill of completing particular projects it’s also worth acknowledging that last year we made a conscious effort to fill out our offerings – to include full service design and production of custom goods.

We’re now pretty uniquely positioned to empower professionals in adjacent industries to take advantage of short run and additive manufacturing; we can help turn ideas into production ready designs and then get that work made and to an audience in a matter of days.

Custom goods

The fact we are expanding our services is inspired by what we see happening around us: Toronto and the wider GTA are full of ebbing entrepreneurial spirit, with a young generation of creative thinkers eager to work on hard problems. Whether we are collaborating with a one-person business run from home, or a Fortune 500, our role is to help innovators with a vision make their ideas physical reality, and quickly release it to their audience in a matter of days.

Diana Watters Handmade

Beaus maze laser cut

Future Hot Pop Factory Projects

We have many big projects in the works, including plans to upgrade operations, and to grow much of our web content and portfolio. We’re also growing our team, and just posted for a Sales and Marketing Assistant position.

One more time: thanks to all that we collaborated with last year. We look forward to making more great things together!

Featured clients: Totem Design Co., Engineering Link, Twitter, Purch, xliangdesign, Beau’s, Pomp & Circumstance, Forest & Waves, Diana Watters Handmade, Moniker,  Nikoleta & Associates