Lawrie McIntosh was born in Clinton, Ontario in 1924. He
graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of
Applied Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1946. He
received his Master of Science in Product Design from the
Illinois Institute of Technology in 1951. Buckminster Fuller
was a visiting lecturer at the time and became a mentor to
McIntosh.

McIntosh worked for the Saint John firm of T. S. Simms & Co.
Ltd. in 1946. He established his own practice, McIntosh
Design Associates, in 1951. He served as the president of
the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers (ACID) in
1954. In 1981, he received a Citation for Outstanding
Achievement from the National Design Council, Design
Canada and ACID. He was a consulting editor of Product
Design Engineer, and taught at the Ontario College of Art
from 1983 to 1989.

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