ARTIST, DESIGNER, or .........both?

After reading a variety of works regarding the relationship between art and design, it has become very clear to me that one cannot exist with out the other. The border is permeable from both art to design and design to art. Art and design exist in different forms and possibilities. Some works are clearly design orientated while others exist as art, yet some stand in neither category or should I say stand in both. Designers and artists need to realize how close they really are. Designer engineers have gallery shows which makes them artists. "Art can be seen as the production of objects, concepts and activities intended to function within specific infrastructure; this production can be definitely seen as a form of design." An artist's creative process is similar to the process of a designer and although differences in individual works are prominent, art and design stand hand in hand most of the time. Surely design is sometimes more engaged in society and functionalism and art isn't always sensible, living in it's own exclusive world; but there are always exceptions. Through similar thought processes and techniques these works are made and they influence their audience all the same. Who's to say ART or DESIGN? If some art is as bad as design and some design is as good as art, maybe the historical, modernist link between design and art will continue to restore itself and artists will overcome this rift in their relationship.