Glaser says that you become clearer about the distinction between design and art as you get older. Fair enough, but this doesn't mean you are getting a clearer

Glaser says that you become clearer about the distinction between design and art as you get older. Fair enough, but this doesn't mean you are getting a clearer view of some fundamental ontological difference between the two. It's just a commonplace empirical observation that the activities/industries are different. Can an object be both design and art? Definitely. Is art definitively identified by being purposeless? Not really. The old name for graphic design was, after all, "commercial art."