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The designers I work with have not even looked at this site, even when I’ve told them how cool it is and what an invaluable resource it has proved to be.

BTW, typo on paragraph 4 (rather)
[The Graphic Engineer (GE) is not identified by his job title or his skill with software, but rathey by his mindset, his personality, and his work habits.]

I find that interesting as I would have thought that using ‘him’ or referring to groups of people as male as being an outdated use of language? In this day and age of equality between the sexes, it feels a little misogynistic

Have any links or suggestions of books on all this?

Also – 4% of engineers might be female, but aren’t we talking about a different discipline when we’re talking about graphic designers and graphic artists? ‘GE’ or not, it’s still design, and this profession of ours is cut pretty much straight down the middle, no?

However, “most Graphic Engineers are also men. That’s just something I’ve noticed” as said by Prescott isn’t something I can argue with!

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He stole quite a few of my posts but I kept leaving comments on them to remove them and I think he got the message and he did remove them.

Just thought I’d let you know incase you didn’t know – nobody wants their work outright copied onto another site.

The funny thing is, on these posts it says “This article is copyright of Just Creative Design and should not be found elsewhere.”

Tsk tsk.

Btw, great site

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Yeah, I’m a designer but I also work in prepress… it can be pretty disappointing sometimes to see a beautiful, fancy design with no bleeds, one single layer and umpteen versions of the same color. Or text-intense layouts in photoshop.

Yes, I used the pronoun “him”, but mainly because English lacks an appropriate third-person singular pronoun. “He or she” is a mouthful, “it” sound non-human, and “they” is of course not proper writing, although it is used all the time in speech.

Also, yes, most Engineers are men. And in my experience, most Graphic Engineers are also men. That’s just something I’ve noticed.

I’ve also noticed, much to my disappointment, that most design professionals, even the clever and talented designers, are to some degree complacent. I’m always shocked to learn that these designers don’t read magazines or blogs, don’t poke around with the latest software, don’t go to trade shows, etc. As a consequence, they don’t know what they don’t know. Just ask anyone who works in pre-press about how many designers overlook what I’ve always considered to be the basics.

Then again, if you’re reading [and commenting] on blogs, chances are you exhibit most of the qualities of the GE. It’s a mindset more than a collection of skills.

Back when I took my first design course, my professor described graphic design as “visual engineering,” and this has stuck with me ever since.

In fact, when people ask for the long version of what a graphic designer does, that is exactly where I begin. My angle is that the client starts out more or less knowing what needs to be communicated, and the designer understands the details of how to do that most effectively.

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I thought most of your points are what separates an amateur from a professional, more than drawing a line around one group and calling them ‘graphic engineers’.

Or perhaps I’m skewing a little bit here — perhaps it’s more a case of the uber-professionals, the passionate, having all of the aspects you mentioned as part of who they are; which is what leads them to being especially good what at what they do? *shrugs*

Also, let’s not assume they’re all males! great post, cheers Prescott, I enjoyed it!

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