Paperwork when you need it.
We work to your drawing and your tolerances. GD&T and tolerance stack-up work. First article inspection reports, and time records on request.
About
The same shop, the same people.
Invent Art is a design and fabrication shop at 192 Main Street North in Uxbridge, Ontario. We design and build aluminum injection molds and run the parts, machine parts with CNC and sinker EDM, and design and build custom pieces such as furniture, fit-outs and signs.
Invent Art started in 2014. This shop has made molds and parts on Main Street North in Uxbridge since 1992, as Colpitts Design. In 2026 the two shops moved under one roof, and everyone stayed.
Design and making
We design it. We make it.
Since 2014, Invent Art has done CAD design, unique builds, and laser and CNC wood routing. Now we design it and make it here.
Two shops, one roof
How two shops became one.
Invent Art started in 2014, building a client base in CAD design, unique builds, and laser and CNC wood routing. The shop at 192 Main Street North opened in 1992 and ran as Colpitts Design.
We started working with Colpitts Design in 2021. It became obvious the two shops would eventually merge, as Peter Colpitts worked toward an incredibly well-deserved retirement. In September 2026, Invent Art took over the shop's operations and moved under one roof, combining two great teams. The people who did the work then still do it now.
Looking for the Colpitts Design shop? It's here. If the shop made a mold for you, ask us.
Small on purpose
You deal with the same people here.
We stay small so that the people doing the work are the people you talk to.
We take on prototypes and larger builds we believe in. Our existing clients' everyday work is always welcome.
Our own products
We make products too.
The owners develop and sell their own products. They know a product has to fit a package, speak to the people who will buy it, and make sense for your market. We will ask about all of that. We won't try to run your business, but we will share what we have learned.
Your idea is yours. We make our own products, and so do the owners' other businesses. We don't use what a client shares with us in confidence to develop any of them.
That doesn't stop us working on ideas we already had or come up with on our own, or using the general skills we build up doing the work.
If you want it in writing, we have our own NDA, and we will review and sign yours.
Like most businesses, we use outside services such as email and AI tools to run the shop. See our privacy notice.
What comes with the work
What you get beyond the part.
Small jobs are welcome.
There is no minimum order. Tens of parts or tens of thousands, a single repair or a fixture. The first conversation is free.
Your tools are yours.
Once you have paid for a mold or a fixture, you own it.
One roof.
We design the mold and cut it in our own shop. Aluminum is easier to change than steel. When something needs adjusting, we adjust it here.
Scrappy before polished.
We prove the uncertain part first. If the question is whether a snap will hold, test the snap, not the whole bracket. Proving one part first can save paying for the whole thing before you know it works.
We tell you when to go elsewhere.
We get you from idea to proven part and early runs. When your volumes outgrow a small shop, a production molder will serve you better, and we will tell you.
Plain language.
We take the work seriously and ourselves less so. You will get straight answers.
The logo
A question, and a smile.
Our logo is a question mark, an equals sign and a simple smile. Read it left to right and it says a problem equals happy.
Dan drew it. He resisted a literal smiley, because he didn't want the logo to look juvenile. The mark is a small reminder that solving problems should be professional but enjoyable, and aimed at making clients happy.
Solving problems makes us happy. More to the point, solving your problem should make you happy. People don't care whether a shop makes a sale. They care whether their problem gets solved, and a good business keeps that the right way round.
We take on projects we believe in, where we'll enjoy solving the problem with you, because work we enjoy tends to come out better. Solving problems for other people is also what keeps us in business.
Our results are professional, and we hold ourselves to that. We don't take ourselves too seriously, and we'd like working with us to be something you enjoy.
Start here
Have something you need made?
An idea, a drawing or a part that needs fixing. Tell us a little about it and we will set up a time to talk.