Muriel Cooper

Muriel Cooper (1925–1994) was an American graphic designer, educator, and researcher who served as the first design director of the MIT Press and later co-founded the MIT Media Lab's Visible Language Workshop. She is best known for designing over 500 books including the classic 1969 Bauhaus volume, creating the iconic MIT Press logo, and pioneering work in digital typography and interactive media design that anticipated the desktop publishing revolution. At the time of her death in 1994, she was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab, where she explored computational design and electronic communication interfaces.