designer vs fine artist

designer

noun
  • A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession. 

  • A plotter or schemer. 

  • A software tool for designing things. 

adj
  • Created by a designer, especially a fashion designer. 

fine artist

noun
  • An artist who creates only aesthetic art; an artist who persists in fine arts as opposed to industrial or functional arts. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fine, artist. 

How often have the words designer and fine artist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )