Sebastian Conran
Sebastian Orby Conran (born 5 April 1956) is a British designer.
Early life
Conran was born in London,[1][self-published source?] the son of Terence Conran, designer, and Shirley Conran, author. He is the elder brother of Jasper Conran, also a designer.
Conran was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, in southern England. He studied industrial design engineering at the Central School of Art and Design in London.[citation needed] He later worked with the punk band The Clash, designing clothes, posters, promotional material, record sleeves and stage sets.[citation needed]
Career
In 1978, Conran was working at Wolff Olins, a corporate and brand identity consultancy.[citation needed] Three years later he was head of product design at Mothercare.[citation needed]
Conran established Sebastian Conran Associates, a product and brand development consultancy, in 1986, and in 1992 started a separate design partnership with Tom Dixon, another designer. From 1999, he headed product and branding design at Studio Conran under Conran & Partners, part of the Conran Group led by his father Sir Terence Conran.[2] In 2008, he re-established the design company Sebastian Conran Associates as managing director, based in west London.[3]
Conran has designed for the department store chain John Lewis.[2] As a writer he produced articles, books, and papers on design and has taught at the Royal College of Art.
Sebastian Conran is a trustee of the Design Museum in London.[4] and is a member of the Council of the UK Design Council.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Sebastian Conran. Conran. Archived 29 December 2010.
- ^ a b Lynda Relph-Knight, Sebastian Conran leaves Conran & Partners. Design Week, 23 September 2009.
- ^ a b Sebastian Conran: Managing Director, Studio Conran Archived 3 March 2010 at the UK Government Web Archive, Design Council, UK.
- ^ Sebastian Conran is reappointed a Trustee of the Design Museum[permanent dead link], Press release, Design Museum, London, UK, November 2008
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