Editing MIT Press (section)

==Colophon==
[[File:MIT_Press_logo.svg|right|MIT Press's logo]]
Since 1962, the MIT Press has used a colophon or publisher's logo created by its longtime design director, [[Muriel Cooper]].<ref name=wired-logo>{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/10/mit-media-lab-gets-transforming-logo-courtesy-pentagram/|title=MIT Media Lab Gets a Transforming Logo, Courtesy of Pentagram|first=Liz|last=Stinson}}</ref> The design is based on a highly abstracted version of the lower-case letters "mitp", with the ascender of the "t" at the fifth stripe and the descender of the "p" at the sixth stripe the only differentiation.<ref name="ColoHist">{{cite web |title=Celebrating 60 years of the MIT Press: The history of the iconic colophon |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/celebrating-60-years-of-the-mit-press-the-history-of-the-iconic-colophon/ |website=MIT Press |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=2023-04-26 |date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=ColoAIGA>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aiga.org/|title=Home &#124; AIGA|website=www.aiga.org}}</ref> In 2015, the colophon also served as an important reference point for the redesign of the [[MIT Media Lab]] logo by [[Pentagram (design studio)|Pentagram]].<ref name=wired-logo/>

In 2011, a custom [[bookcase]] in the form of the MIT Press colophon was displayed at the [[MIT Museum]] as part of the ''MIT 150'' exhibition, commemorating the [[sesquicentennial]] of MIT's founding.<ref name="MITP-50">{{cite web |title=The MIT Press: Celebrating 50 Years |url=https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/mit-press/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20120653/mitpress_50th_anniversary_catalog.pdf |website=Cloudfront |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=2023-05-08}}</ref>{{rp|31}}

In 2023, the [[Museum of Modern Art]] (MoMA) in New York City acquired the MIT Press colophon into its permanent design collection.<ref name="Walton">{{cite web |last1=Walton |first1=Chris |title=The Museum of Modern Art acquires the MIT Press colophon |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2023/04/the-museum-of-modern-art-acquires-muriel-coopers-mit-press-colophon/ |website=The Architect's Newspaper |access-date=2023-04-26 |date=24 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="MoMA">{{cite web |title=MIT Press Colophon |url=https://www.moma.org/collection/works/446212 |website=MoMA |publisher=The Museum of Modern Art |access-date=2023-04-26}}</ref>