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This stands as a sketch for the future: Muriel Cooper and the Visible Language Workshop

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Muriel Cooper designed the MIT Press logo and became the first Design Director of MIT Press in 1967, remaining through 1974. The Visual Language Workshop was founded in 1976, as a "unique interdisciplinary graphics laboratory, to explore verbal and visual communication as information and as art on both personal and public levels".

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Center for advanced visual studies

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The Center for Advanced Visual Studies is a fellowship program that commissions and produces new artworks at MIT. We facilitate exchange between internationally known and emerging contemporary artists and MIT’s faculty, students, and staff through public events, support for long-term art projects, and residencies for MIT students. This small book collects flyers for public events and a sampling of pictures from four years of programming. http://cavs.mit.edu

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A Co* program for graphic design

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This volume expands David Reinfurt’s uniquely pragmatic and experimental approach to pedagogy into a collaborative project that weaves together a multiplicity of voices to present a polyphonic approach to design history and teaching. Three of Reinfurt’s new Princeton University graphic design courses—C-i-r-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n, M-u-l-t-p-l-i-c-i-t-y and R-e-s-e-a-r-c-h—developed explicitly in the context of remote teaching and in light of urgent realignments around whose stories get told and who does the telling, are presented in this follow-up to A *New* Program for Graphic Design (Inventory Press/D.A.P., 2018). C-i-r-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n examines the distribution networks for graphic design including electronic and conventional means. M-u-l-t-p-l-i-c-i-t-y, taught with mathematics professor Philip Ording, explores graphic design from the perspective of topology and topology through the practice of graphic design. R-e-s-e-a-r-c-h is an advanced graphic design class which cultivates an exploratory and expansive design process and investigates what the term ""design research"" has meant at different points in design history.

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Muriel Cooper

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Muriel Cooper (1925–1994) was the pioneering designer who created the 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 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 began her four-decade career at MIT by designing printed flyers for the Office of Publications; her final projects were digital. This 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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A new program for graphic design

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Through a series of in-depth historical case studies and assignments that progressively build in complexity, 'A New Program for Graphic Design' serves as a practical guide both for designers and for undergraduate students coming from a range of other disciplines. Synthesizing the pragmatic with the experimental, and drawing on the work of Max Bill, Beatrice Warde, Muriel Cooper and Stewart Brand (among many others),, it builds upon mid- to late-20th-century pedagogical models to convey contemporary design principles in an understandable form for students of all levels — treating graphic design as a liberal art that informs the dissemination of knowledge across all disciplines.