Editing Kyle Cooper (section)

== Early life ==

=== Childhood ===
Cooper was born on a Friday the 13th in [[Salem, Massachusetts]]. As a child, Cooper spent his days obsessed with sketching monsters.<ref name="aiga">{{cite web|url=http://www.aiga.org/medalist-kyle-cooper/|title=Kyle Cooper|publisher=AIGA|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705012216/http://www.aiga.org/medalist-kyle-cooper/|access-date=May 3, 2014|archive-date=July 5, 2014}}</ref> He was also fascinated by comic books, monster makeup books, and horror movies. Cooper stated in an interview with Revert to Saved that he had always wanted to be a film director, “I’ve always been interested in film and editing—more specifically, the juxtaposition of images in film or on a single page. However, I felt it more comprehensive to tell stories over time. Print design can provide great single moments, but I wanted to work with a sequence that had a beginning, middle and end".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://reverttosaved.com/2009/03/26/from-the-archives-an-interview-with-kyle-cooper/|title=From the archives: an interview with Kyle Cooper|website=Revert to Saved|access-date=2017-05-08}}</ref>

=== Education ===
When it came time for Cooper to go to college, he attended the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]], studying interior architecture. While on the brink of failing, he convinced his professor to let him pass by making a promise -- that he would never actually work as an interior designer.<ref name="aiga" />

Cooper then went on to earn his [[Master of Fine Arts]] in graphic design at [[Yale University]] in 1988.<ref name="aiga" /> He studied independently with renowned American modernist [[Paul Rand]] during his time there. Cooper wrote his thesis on director [[Sergei Eisenstein]], and was awarded the Mohawk Paper Traveling Fellowship to complete his thesis research in the then [[Soviet Union]].<ref name=":0" />