This Stands as a Sketch for the Future: Muriel Cooper and the Visual Language Workshop

This lecture traces the 40-year graphic design practice of Muriel Cooper, the former Design Director of The MIT Press and cofounder of the MIT Media Lab, which often blurred the distinction between design and production and thinking and making.

David Reinfurt is a graphic designer in New York. Since 2000, he has run O R G inc., a graphic design practice that works for cultural and educational institutions in a range of media. Prior to forming O R G, David was an interaction designer with IDEO San Francisco, where he designed the interface for the MTA MetroCard vending machines. He has been a visiting critic at the University of Texas, Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Yale University, and Royal College of Art. David has written for publications including The New York Times Magazine, Dot Dot Dot, Social Text, Visual Communications, Metropolis M, Idea Magazine, and No Zone Empire. David currently teaches at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and the Rhode Island School of Design. Reinfurt is also, with Stuart Bailey, one half of Dexter Sinister, the New York-based “Just-In-Time Workshop and Occasional Bookstore.”