Designeloper
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Yes that's what I do. Whilst I primarily trained as a designer I love to 'get my hands dirty' and code too, CSS PHP SQL JQuery, frontend, backend, whatever needed really. I find it rewarding designing a site and building it too, rather than handing it to someone else to finish.
It works for 'one-man bands' like me (www.joesmalley.com), and in very small design studios. Before I set up on my own, I worked in a 3-man studio where my job role was design and development. But the size of these small studios limits the size of projects worked on.
In larger studios/agencies, it obviously makes more sense to delegate design and development to separate people. Yes it means working on larger projects, but working on only design or dev.
So yes, hybrids do exist, but in doing everything it does limit you in other ways too.
Personally I am looking for another hybrid to team-up with to take on larger projects - a Saveloper - sales/developer - do they exist?!