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William Owen is a design strategy consultant who also writes about design. He is the author of Magazine Design, a history of magazine design in the 20th century, and five essays on mapping in Mapping: an illustrated guide to graphic navigation systems, as well as many articles, essays and reviews on design in Eye, Blueprint and Design magazines. As a practicing design strategist William works across design, technology and business disciplines to help organisations bring together different ways of thinking to devise service and editorial propositions and align brand, product and communication strategies. William is currently working with media organisations on combining social media with traditional editorial and rich media content. His clients include the National Magazine Company and Hearst Digital, the BBC, Reuters, Haymarket and the Man Group.