Volume : writings on graphic design, music, art, and culture / written by Kenneth FitzGerald ; Liner notes by Rudy VanderLans.

Dedication -- Foreword / Rudy Vanderlans -- Introduction. Words on sound and vision -- The neographical survey : an instructor of concern -- Adversarial thoughts -- First, class -- Designers are material -- The resistance -- Designer X -- Trenchancy -- Buzz kill -- Quietude -- Amplifications : on Creem magazine -- My two and only -- Sound -- Music for markets -- The graphic equalizer -- Teleidoscopin? : aerosol -- The end of design -- The importance of white space -- Pejoration -- Form vs. function -- Light turning -- The last wave -- Inference and resonance : eponimity -- Be yourself, be someone else -- Chaos theories and uncertainty principles -- Indiscipline -- Seen and not seen -- Skilling saws and absorbent catalogs -- Professional suicide -- Coda. Life in these ephemeral states -- Publication information.