[at_]

Ironically 'getting a list of things people like and then drawing those things' seems like the exact approach an engineer would take

[zachrose]

Komar and Melamid is an art group that took surveys of art preferences in different countries and then made the logical favorite and least favorite paintings.

America's most wanted painting: http://awp.diaart.org/km/usa/most.html

Survey results: http://awp.diaart.org/km/surveyresults.html

[mhurron]

Dilbert did it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0560459/