Dezeen promotion: annual conference What Design Can Do is launching its first talks programme about the relationship between design and music (+ slideshow).
British designer Peter Saville will headline the first What Design Can Do for Music. Photograph by Anna Blessmann
This year's What Design Can Do conference in Amsterdam will feature a series of talks and breakout sessions around the theme What Design Can Do for Music.
In the 1980s, Saville created album covers for music label Factory Records, including the sleeve for True Faith by New Order
Peter Saville, the British designer behind many of the most iconic UK record covers of the 1970s and 1980s, will be among the speakers in the programme, which includes designers, artists and musicians. Saville also designed the cover for New Order's second album, called Power Corruption & Lies
"Over its two-day programme What Design Can Do will present some of the most impressive examples of the interlocking realms of design and music, adding layers of meaning and understanding to the musical experience," said What Design Can Do.

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