How geeky is a graphic designer? Can’t code, probably doesn’t know half the acronyms your first year newbie does, and uses a lot of ’short-cuts’ to generating web pages – Photoshop and Dreamweaver, to name the most likely tools in the toolbox.
Some would say a graphic designer does the ’soft core’ web development – asks questions like how exactly should that image be placed in relation to the text, how can we achieve drop-shadow, or which font is most effective in which circumstance. The fundamental question behind graphic design is does form follow function – is the purpose of the website being conveyed clearly by its visual elements? As long as this is the question a graphic designer is asking, then yes it is a useful and vital task in web development.
So is a graphic designer a geek? I would say a thorough to the point of obsessive competence in anything, especially something computer related, makes one a geek in that area. Sure a graphic designer can be a geek – a very specific type of geek, whose expertise has great relevance to the work of the ‘hard core’ back-end coding geeks.
i haz a geekboy. moi.
a geek to me is someone that looks into something with great detail. it’s cool to geekout at something, be amazed by it and wallow in geekdom over it. it is cool to be a geek trust me, we have dream in black and green characters.