Amert, Kay
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Kay Amert (1947-2008) was a professor and typographer at the University of Iowa who studied French Renaissance printing and typography.
Kay Amert was born November 11, 1947, in Madison, South Dakota, to Henry and Arlene Amert. Amert grew up in Madison, and graduated from Madison High School in 1965, going on to attend the University of Iowa. In 1967, while a student at the University of Iowa, she established an imprint, the Seamark Press. Upon completion of her degree, she became the director of the Typography Laboratory at the University of Iowa in 1972. She held this position and taught at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication until she retired in 2006. Amert published six different articles during this time and was working on a book on Renaissance printer Simon de Colines when she died of cancer on September 5, 2008, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.
From the guide to the Kay Amert research papers, 1986-2007, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)
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Subjects:
- Printing
- Publishers and publishing
- Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce
- Technology
- Type and type-founding
- Type designers
- Type designers
Occupations:
- Historians
Places:
- France (as recorded)
