P. Scott Makela is one of the most popular and richest Designer who was born on February 6, 1960 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. P. Scott Makela (February 6 1960, Saint Paul, Minnesota until May 7 1999 in Pontiac, Michigan) was a graphic designer as well as a multimedia designer and type designer. Alongside his other projects his work, he was renowned for his design of Dead History, a postmodern typeface (issued by the Emigre digital type foundry) which combines the characteristics of the round sans serif typeface with an elegant Neo-classical serif typeface. When the personal computer around the middle of the 1980s, Makela was among the first to try digital programs like Photoshop along with Adobe Illustrator. In the process, Makela created an unique distinctive and controversial aesthetic for design. Particularly, his disdain for minimalist, clean problems-solving design principles–that are often associated with modern corporate graphic design–provoked many debates among strong, older-guard designers like Massimo Vignelli Paul Rand, and Henry Wolf.
in 2013, Haycock Madela gave a talk in the year 2013 “Dead History: an era, a typeface and a love story” about her late husband and their time in the same place on the campuses of Minneapolis College of Art and Design [1] and Cranbrook Academy of Art [2and Cranbrook Academy of Art [2.
In 1996, Makela and partner and wife, Laurie Haycock Makela became designers-in-residence and co-directors of the graduate program in Graphic Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where they also ran their studio, Words + Pictures for Business + Culture. Along along with author Lewis Blackwell they authored Whereishere (Ginko Press) the “unprecedented print-website concept that broke from the orthodox approach to understanding two dimensional design.” As a dedicated mountain biker and snowboarder, Makela represented and embodied the early 1990s American youth culture.
