Research Catalog

Title

Muriel Cooper / David Reinfurt and Robert Wiesenberger.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors

• Reinfurt, David.
• Wiesenberger, Robert.
• Iguchi, Yasuyo

Description

xiii, 195 pages : illustrations (some color); 37 cm

Summary

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 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.

Subjects

• Cooper, Muriel > Criticism and interpretation
• M.I.T. Press

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.
• Rare Book copy: In original slipcase.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Hard copy (1954-1974) / by Robert Wiesenberger -- Soft copy (1974-1994) / by David Reinfurt -- Design -- Teaching -- Research.

ISBN

• 9780262036504
• 0262036509

LCCN

2016053528

OCLC

• ocn964624673
• 964624673
• SCSB-9002557

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries