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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by biztos on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:35PM (#12790378)
Yes but doesn't this just bring us back to the "are engineers artists" question?

UI/UX designers are not "artists" by conventional definition, and architects are in such a special zone of "engineering-plus" that some of us end up called Software Architects.

In other words: his exceptional aesthetic sense doesn't make Jony Ive an Artist except in a let's-decide-what-an-artist-is discussion. Which this is, of course. :-)

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Re:Is an Engineer an Artist? by Jtsummers on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:58PM (#12790629)
I was responding to your question here:

  Wouldn't it be cool if engineering projects called in a team of artists?
By saying it does happen. Could it happen more, sure, but it does happen quite often, and for more than just murals.

Regarding the general debate here of engineer vs artist, I gave up on it. We have to first agree on what is meant by "art". By some definitions, engineering is very clearly art. By others, it's very clearly not.

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