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It makes for a catchy headline, but the idea is completely wrong.
Art incorporates the design process. Artists even use the term "Design" when discussing composition, layout and themes. The process by which an experienced artist moves toward a completed work is identical to that employed by a designer: ideation, sketching, identifying constraints in materials, consideration of the audience and end use, and refining initial assumptions based on new feedback. This is how everything comes into existence. Designers don't hold a patent on it.
The only difference from Milton Glaser's perspective seems to be in whether you have been commissioned to produce the thing prior to starting, or if you're hoping to find a buyer later on. -- that's not a practical difference.
I'm sure he's well meaning, in that he's trying to separate and elevate "Design" from what "Art" has become in its more extravagant periphery, but the message does a disservice to all the young artists (designers) who may end up working in design roles. To eliminate aesthetics from the conversation, and to elevate only the rational component of design is to remove the humanity from it.
It's muzak... and nobody gets excited about muzak.