But graphic design, as most people (not Escher) mean it, is significantly different from painting. Serious graphic design is functional in a way that painting isn't. It's as much architecture as art.
If you had written an essay called "Hackers and Graphic Designers", the rebuttal we're discussing wouldn't have been written.
If you had written an essay called "Hackers and Graphic Designers", the rebuttal we're discussing wouldn't have been written.