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Muriel Cooper worked across four decades at the Massachusetts Institute of
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Technology in overlapping roles as a graphic designer, teacher, and
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researcher.
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As the first Design Director of the MIT Press, Cooper established a
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comprehensive publishing program and designed books like ''The Bauhaus''
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(1969) and ''Learning from Las Vegas'' (1972). As co-founder of the Visible
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Language Workshop, she taught experimental printing, tested large-format
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Polaroid photography, and integrated video systems in MIT's Department of
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Architecture. At the MIT Media Lab, she developed some of the earliest
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computer interfaces and educated a generation of designers. [http://pairlist6.pair.net/pipermail/open-reading-group/2014-February/000074.html]
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* Janet Abrams, [http://www.aiga.org/medalist-murielcooper/ "Muriel Cooper"], ''I.D. Magazine'', 1994.
 
* Janet Abrams, [http://www.aiga.org/medalist-murielcooper/ "Muriel Cooper"], ''I.D. Magazine'', 1994.

Revision as of 14:30, 17 April 2015

Muriel Cooper worked across four decades at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in overlapping roles as a graphic designer, teacher, and researcher.

As the first Design Director of the MIT Press, Cooper established a comprehensive publishing program and designed books like The Bauhaus (1969) and Learning from Las Vegas (1972). As co-founder of the Visible Language Workshop, she taught experimental printing, tested large-format Polaroid photography, and integrated video systems in MIT's Department of Architecture. At the MIT Media Lab, she developed some of the earliest computer interfaces and educated a generation of designers. [1]

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