The career of the pioneering designer Muriel Cooper, whose work
spanned media from printed book to software interface; generously
illustrated in color. Muriel Cooper (1925-1994) was the pioneering
designer who created the iconic MIT Press colophon (or logo)-seven
bars that represent the lowercase letters "mitp" as abstracted
books on a shelf. She designed a modernist monument, the
encyclopedic volume The Bauhaus (1969), and the graphically
dazzling and controversial first edition of Learning from Las Vegas
(1972). She used an offset press as an artistic tool, worked with a
large-format Polaroid camera, and had an early vision of e-books.
Cooper was the first design director of the MIT Press, the
cofounder of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT, and the first
woman to be granted tenure at MIT's Media Lab, where she developed
software interfaces and taught a new generation of designers. She
began her four-decade career at MIT by designing vibrant printed
flyers for the Office of Publications; her final projects were
digital. This lavishly illustrated volume documents Cooper's career
in abundant detail, with prints, sketches, book covers, posters,
mechanicals, student projects, and photographs, from her work in
design, teaching, and research at MIT. A humanist among scientists,
Cooper embraced dynamism, simultaneity, transparency, and
expressiveness across all the media she worked in. More than two
decades after her career came to a premature end, Muriel Cooper's
legacy is still unfolding. This beautiful slip-cased volume,
designed by Yasuyo Iguchi, looks back at a body of work that is as
contemporary now as it was when Cooper was experimenting with IBM
Selectric typewriters. She designed design's future.
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