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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.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Muriel Cooper
• Author: David Reinfurt, Robert Wiesenberger
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780262036504
• ISBN: 9780262036504
• ID: 16056089
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 2238 g
• Dimensions: 373 × 268 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. September 2017

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