"Lawrie McIntosh was born in Clinton, Ontario in 1924 and graduated from the University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering in 1946. On a National Industrial Design Committee award, he received his Master of Science in Product Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1951. Buckminster Fuller, the engineer and architect renown for his Dymaxion car and house, and geodesic dome, was a visiting lecturer at the time and became a mentor to McIntosh. He established his own practice in Toronto in 1951. He was a consulting editor of Product Design Engineer and taught at the Ontario College of Art from 1983 to 1989."

"Lawrie McIntosh earned a degree in mechanical engineering but was soon swept up into the emerging design profession. Throughout his long career, he gravitated toward assignments that could benefit from his engineering training.

McIntosh graduated from the University of Toronto in 1946. The NIDC awarded him a scholarship to the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he earned a master's degree in product design in 1951. Buckminster Fuller became a mentor. McIntosh returned to Toronto, established McIntosh design Associates and in 1952 won an NIDC award for a stacking and folding chair. Two years later, he won another NIDC award, as well as a gold medal at the Milan Triennale for an automatic steam and dry iron. designed for Steam Electronic Products, Toronto. During the fifties and sixties, McIntosh designed the Lady Lorcan hair dryer, as well as appliance plugs, trouble lights and electric kettles.

By 1960, when McIntosh was elected the president of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers, he had already returned to his engineering roots by designing the Cobalt 60 therapy machine for Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL). Over the next two decades, he saw AECL's Theratron cancer treatment machine through numerous generations of design innovation. In 1981 McIntosh was given citations for outstanding achievement by Design Canada and ACID. Between 1983 and 1989, he taught design at the Ontario College of Art."