Have you ever experienced the sweet smell of fresh raspberries, or the thrill of watching tomatoes ripen in the sun?

With the debut of a fully-functioning garden on SAIT campus this year, two SAIT culinary instructors Andrew Hewson and Simon Dunn, hope to give the SAIT community’s taste buds exposure to the pleasure of fresh food.

Hewson, mastermind of the project and winner of this year’s Cadmus Foundation’s research grant, said it’s more than an opportunity to invest in a dynamic ..read more

Canadian industrial designer Lawrie McIntosh has pushed design boundaries by creating new ways to produce items which we use every day.  For that, he’s considered a pioneer of Canadian industrial product design.

But in the 1960s, he designed something way outside the box. McIntosh created a set of Canadian animal souvenirs for the Canadian Souvenir Competition.

“I probably designed the animals to show that I am not just an engineer,” said McIntosh.

Each was originally constructed from a flat sheet of copper with ..read more