Acclaimed British Designer, Sebastian Conran is to host an inspirational seminar at The Tile & Stone Show 2008/Floorstyle 08. Joining Wayne Hemingway in the exclusive seminar line-up, Sebastian will explore “the price of everything and the value of nothing”*: design and its commercial application’ on the show’s second day, Monday 30 June, at ExCeL London. The event is set to attract leading architects and interior designers from the UK and overseas.

Director of product and graphic design studio, Conran & Partners, Sebastian’s career spans incandescent punk to iconic product design. As a student representive on the Governing Council, he gave the Sex Pistols their first ever booking and, subsequently, designed record sleeves and promotional material for the Clash. By 1978 Sebastian was working with leading consultancy, Wolff Olins, before being recruited as Mothercare’s Head of Product Design in 1981. Five years later, he founded Sebastian Conran Associates, which merged with S.C.A in 1999 to form Conran & Partners. Many of Sebastian’s technical innovations have been patented and his studio has received numerous design, marketing and innovation awards, including in the last three year’s alone three iF Product Design Awards, D&AD product design selections and Elle Decoration’s Iconic Product of the Year Award.

As well as an outstanding career and enormous industry acclaim, Sebastian has written numerous books, articles and papers, and has taught furniture design at the Royal College of Art. He lectures and judges many national and international design awards, and is an active member of numerous bodies; an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and Chartered Society of Designers.

The Tile & Stone Show and Floorstyle 08 will take place at ExCeL London from Sunday 29 June to Tuesday 1 July. For more information, please contact Stuart Bourne on tel. +44 (0)1892 752400, email stuart.bourne@kick-startpublishing.co.uk or visit www.thetileandstoneshow.co.uk