Muriel Cooper
Muriel Cooper at MIT, 1954--1994
$120.81
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
22 September 2017
Summary
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 f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262036504 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262036509 |
| Author: | David Reinfurt, Robert Wiesenberger, Nicholas Negroponte, Lisa Strausfeld |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 22 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.45kg |
| Dimensions: | 356mm x 254mm |
| Series: | Muriel Cooper |
About The Author
David Reinfurt
David Reinfurt, a graphic designer, is cofounder of Dexter Sinister and The Serving Library, an online and print publishing project, and a Lecturer at Princeton University. His work is in the permanent collections of Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.Robert Wiesenberger is Critic at the Yale School of Art, where he teaches the history of graphic design, and a PhD candidate in art history at Columbia University. As the 2014-2016 Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, he was responsible for the museums’ Bauhaus collections.Nicholas Negroponte is founding Chairman of the MIT Media Lab, Media Lab Europe, and the 2B1 Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing computer access to the most remote and poorest parts of the world.
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