Tag: VLW

Past

Messages and Means: Muriel Cooper at MIT

Post author By David
Post date March 27, 2014

Muriel Cooper (1925-1994) was my advisor when I was a graduate student at her Visible Language Workshop at the MIT Media Lab. It was an experience that profoundly influenced the way I work and approach the the world. It’s not easy to describe, so instead these these quotes of hers may start to give a sense […]

Tags Columbia University, David Reinfurt, design research, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Muriel Cooper, Robert Wiesenberger, VLW

Past Special

Muriel Cooper: Information Landscapes

Post author By David
Post date February 1, 2010

Financial Viewpoints, by Lisa Strausfeld

In 1994 Muriel Cooper presented work at the TED5 conference in Monterey, CA that changed the way designers thought of the possibilities of electronic media. The work, from her group at the MIT Media Lab‘s Visible Language Workshop (or VLW), took typography, literally, into three dimensions — and gave it dynamics and interactivity that had […]

Tags 3D, design research, Feature, Information Landscapes, Lisa Strausfeld, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Muriel Cooper, TED, typography, VLW