On Graphic Design Again

I really can't get over how impressive the work presented in Lupton's and Phillips' book is. The sky-building alphabet seems to be just so ingenious and it must've been fun to create it... walking around town looking up into to the sky, trying to match English letters. And according to the captions, these are work from MFA students, which makes me wonder where will all these talented graphic designers be in a few years? I've always appreciated visual art, but I'm not into it enough to know if the art here would be displayed at a museum or something. I do know that artists typically make little money while everyone is always looking for graphic designers. So is this capitalistic society taking these artists to better paying jobs involving big corporations and forcing them to do the "fun" things on the side? I wouldn't be surprised if this is true, because it is definitely true for writers as it is impossible to live off of your creation even if it is ingenious.