Muriel Cooper
"I don't think there are answers. I think there are thoughts." MC
Born in Boston, MA Murial Cooper was a pioneering book designer, digital designer, researcher, and educator. She was the longtime art director of the MIT Press, moved on to become founder of MIT's Visible Language Workshop, and later became a co-founder of the MIT Media Lab. In 2007, a New York Times article called her "the design heroine you've probably never heard of".
She designed covers for more than five hundred books, over one hundred of which have won design awards, and she was the second recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Design leadership award. Although she never learned to program computers, she could see the design possibilities opened up by the technology, and worked closely with programmers and engineers to experiment with new concepts in the presentation of complex information.
Muriel Cooper // (1925 - 1994) // Born in Boston, MA
- BA from Ohio State in 1944
- BFA in design in 1948 and a BS in education in 1951 from Massachusetts College of Art
- Art Director and Designer at MIT's Office of Publications (1952 - 1958) (source ref)
- Associate Professor at Mass College of Art (1962 -1964) (source ref)
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- I don't think there are answers. I think there are thoughts.
- “If you look at the computer as an environment in which you do multiple tasks, and which is ubiquitous in your life, then it’s even more important that this personalization and configurability take place.”
