About Muriel Cooper MIT
Muriel Cooper ran design at MIT Press, founded the Visible Language Workshop in 1975, and carried it into the Media Lab. Her group's Information Landscapes let typography leave the page for navigable three-dimensional space.
The system reads from the 1994 TED5 demo: white grotesque on velvety black, transparent type planes stacked at varying opacity and depth of field, scale standing in for hierarchy, motion standing in for structure. The screen is emissive additive light, not subtractive ink, and is designed as such.
- Origin
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Era
- 1952–1994 (MIT Press from 1952; Visible Language Workshop 1975; Media Lab 1985; Information Landscapes demoed 1994)
- Key figures
- Muriel Cooper · David Small · Suguru Ishizaki · Lisa Strausfeld · Earl Rennison
- Movements
- Swiss International Style · Bauhaus pedagogy · dynamic information design
Muriel Cooper MIT design spec
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