Muriel Cooper taught at the Museum School of Fine Arts, Simmons College, the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston University and the University of Maryland, as well as lecturing in institutions across America. In 1952, Cooper began working at MIT Press before founding the Office of Publications, which is now called Design Services. Cooper left MIT in 1958 to pursue a Fulbright scholarship in Milan. On her return in 1967, was became the first Design Director of MIT Press, where she designed hundreds of books such as Hans Wingler’s BAUHAUS (1969) and Robert Venturi’s Learning from Las Vegas (1972). In 1974 Cooper began teaching a course at MIT called ‘Messages and Means’ and was the first graphic designer to join the Department of Architecture in 1977. She later co-founded and directed MIT’s Visible Language Workshop at the Media Laboratory.