pbThe career of the pioneering designer Muriel Cooper, whose work spanned media from printed book to software interface generously illustrated in color.bppMuriel 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 iThe Bauhausi 1969, and the graphically dazzling and controversial first edition of iLearning from Las Vegasi 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 was the first design director of the MIT Press, the cofounder of the Visible Language Workshop at MIT, and the first woman to be granted tenure at MIT's Media Lab, where she developed software interfaces and taught a new generation of designers. She began her four-decade career at MIT by designing vibrant printed flyers for the Office of Publicati