William Owen

Recent articles by William Owen

Fuse's envelope comes unstuck

Issue 16, Spring 1995

Review

The suffix ’94 seems to suggest that the organisers of the Fuse conference expect to…

Meta’s tectonic man

Issue 18, Autumn 1995

Feature

In Erik Spiekermann’s hands, typographic design is a tool for rendering the world more accessible

Bodies, text and motion

Issue 21, Summer 1996

Feature

Peter Greenaway’s new film, The Pillow Book, is his most sophisticated essay in graphic cinema

Design in the age of digital reproduction

Issue 14, Autumn 1994

Feature

‘Multimedia’ may well be one of the most overused words of the 1990s. What does it mean for designers, what has been achieved so far and where are we heading?

Messy medium

Issue 64, Summer 2007

Opinion

Social media is shifting message-making away from mass media and into the hands of multiple users.

Blam: the essence is speed

Issue 14, Autumn 1994

Feature

William Owen looks at design in the age of digital reproduction

When media worlds collide

Issue 6, Spring 1992

Review

Hypertext is the communication media’s equivalent of cold fusion. It is one of those fuzzy…

Mondo magazines

Issue 4, Summer 1991

Feature

Some of the sharpest and most influential graphic design ideas come from the new magazines. Eye thumbs the pages of the international press and takes a close look at three of the most consistently creative titles: i-D, Interview, and Beach Culture

What’s this history for?

Issue 3, Spring 1991

Review

The suggestion, by a European interloper, that there was some rancour in the ostensibly anodyne title…

Wheels of fortune

Issue 2, Winter 1990

Feature

Fortune magazine was a visual encyclopedia of American business life

Experiments in hypertype

Issue 21, Summer 1996

Opinion

Book or CD-ROM?