Muriel Cooper
American graphic artist, designer · United States · On the map · Lived 1925 to 1994 · aged 69
Muriel Cooper was an American pioneering book designer, digital designer, researcher, and educator. She was the first design director of the MIT Press, instilling a Bauhaus-influenced design style into its many publications.
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She 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".
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Lived 1925 to 1994 · aged 69