How to pronounce “muriel” in English

Muriel Cooper worked at MIT for 40 years.

Muriel Cooper, along with Nicholas, was one of the co-founders of Media Lab.

Muriel Cooper, this is early stuff she did about manipulating type and data in 3D space,

about Muriel's work as a whole.

This is Muriel Cooper at age 68.

He recommended Muriel Cooper to do it.

And Kepes brought Muriel Cooper in to work, originally, at the Office of Publications.

This became more what Muriel Cooper was spending the bulk of her days doing.

You see Muriel Cooper wearing a Polaroid camera, an SX-70, which would have been brand new in 1974, around her neck.

Here's Muriel Cooper and Ron MacNeil in the space of the Visible Language Workshop at the Media Lab.

And I wonder how Muriel communicated the value of computers or new interfaces in the more pure graphic design world.

That was by Muriel Cooper.

This is another portrait of Muriel Cooper.

This is a self-portrait of Muriel Cooper.

The purple book is called "Muriel Cooper," but so much of the work inside is not directly her work, rather, it's the work of her students.

These were all proposals that Muriel Cooper made.

This book was of special importance to Muriel Cooper.

The Bauhaus was no abstraction to Muriel Cooper at this time in Cambridge.

There's a great insight that Muriel Cooper had, which I think may be one of her strongest, which early on, this is late 1970s, she said, well in time,

And a lot of it centered around Muriel Cooper's work, either people who had gone to the Media Lab or people who knew it, et cetera.

Can you talk about the influence that Muriel Cooper's work has had on your own work?

this lady Jacqueline Casey and this lady Muriel Cooper.

My other grandmother, Muriel, less of a cook, could make two things, but still just keeping those traditions alive for her.

This is not the logo for the MIT Press that Muriel Cooper designed.

This one is also not the logo for MIT Press that Muriel Cooper designed.

I mean, Muriel Cooper designed a letterhead.

In 1974, Muriel Cooper was introduced to Ron MacNeil.

In 1980, Muriel Cooper and Ron MacNeil were asked to submit an article for Department of Architecture in-house journal called "Plan."

In 1985, Muriel Cooper was asked by Nicholas Negroponte-- who was in the Department of Architecture,

and he was founding the Media Lab at MIT-- Muriel Cooper was invited, as one of the founding faculty, to establish a research unit within it.

So I wanted to ask you how you came to Muriel's work.

Turns out none of them were designed by Muriel Cooper, but she had printed most of them.

Given that so many of the people who came after Muriel Cooper-- they are interaction designers, they sometimes self-identify as artists-- what do you think

This was made in the context of a computer-aided design and programming class that Muriel Cooper had audited at MIT in the Department of Mechanical

Now, the two images that are of Muriel Cooper here started out as video images made in 1974, captured on Sony Portapak.

I'm curious to know what the graphic design community thought of Muriel Cooper.

In many of the images that I'm going to show you, either Muriel Cooper won't be in them or else she'll be surrounded by other people.

And in fact, when I started digging through what exists of the Muriel Cooper archive at Massachusetts College of Art, which is a bunch of banker's boxes

We're going to watch the last thing, which is Muriel Cooper introducing that TED Talk where we started.

I also wanted to ask you about the book's epigraph, which is a quote from Muriel Cooper that says, "I guess I'm never sure that print is truly

But before I talk about stories, there's this great quotation by a poet Muriel Rukeyser, which says the following: the universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

OK, so you talked briefly about your grandmother, and you talk about two of your grandmothers in the book, Eva and Muriel.

So I wanted to start this off looking at this image because this was my way into Muriel Cooper.

And I thought, oh, these must have been designed by Muriel Cooper.

It wasn't organized at the time, although Massachusetts College of Art, where the Muriel Cooper archive is, has done incredible work to put it together.