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Overview

M/M (Paris) is one of the world’s most innovative and intriguing design studios. Established in 1992 by Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak, the duo’s work at the jagged confluence of the art, music and fashion worlds has attracted leading names and brands to their exceptional approach to print, advertising and editorial. Their collaborators form a constellation of contemporary culture: fashion designers and houses including Yohji Yamamoto, Miuccia Prada, Nicolas Ghesquière, Jil Sander, Jonathan Anderson, Alexander McQueen, Loewe, Louis Vuitton and Acne Studios; musicians including Björk, Madonna, Étienne Daho, Vanessa Paradis and Kanye West; and artists including Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, François Curlet and Sarah Morris.

The first major compendium of M/M’s work was published by Thames & Hudson in 2012, followed by a second volume in 2020. Designed by London’s Graphic Thought Facility, the two books together form an almost 1,000-page archive of images, identities, alphabets, posters, campaigns, books, exhibitions and collaborations. They have become both reference works and objects of fascination: a dense visual record of a studio whose practice has continually expanded the role of graphic design.

Now, inspired by the success of these ambitious publications, Volume is proud to release a highly limited collector’s edition. Featuring, for the first time, hardcover editions that have been specially conceived to evoke archival volumes unearthed from a deep archive yet using cutting-edge printing techniques to achieve, this monumental set is literally bookended by two cast-iron ‘Agents’, one of M/M’s most recognisable recurring figures. First conceived in 1996 for an unrealised artificial intelligence project, ‘The Agent’ has since moved through the studio’s work as a mutable character, acquiring new meaning with every appearance. In Volume I, it appears as a fictional interviewee, confirming its role not as a mascot, but as part of M/M’s own mythology.

Specification

Two volumes
350 x 260 mm
Specially designed archive hardcover with foil blocking and laser-cut details
Total of 984 pages in full colour
Printed on 80gsm Eos Blaulich Weiss Vol 13
Editions numbered on specially designed ‘Agent’ page-marker tabs

Bookends
Cast iron, sand-casted, shot-blasted and powder-coated matt black

Editors
Volume I edited by Emily King
Volume II edited by Grace Johnston

How it works

This exclusive edition will go into production when 10 units have been sold.

Estimated delivery

July 2026

Shipping

Tracked worldwide.

The Books

Originally published as large-format paperbacks, they have been reconceived as hardcovers by Paul Neale, of Graphic Thought Facility: ‘Mathias and Michaël invited me to consider what a Collector’s Edition of their monographs could be, at a time when I was already thinking about the aesthetics of personal libraries—specifically the tension between preciousness and protection, and use and wear. As a special edition, upgrading the original softback covers to a case binding felt like an obvious move—provided there was a counterpoint. Thinking of the torn jackets of some of my most-read books, I imagined those lost fragments drawn back together, like the surviving pieces of a Roman mosaic returned to their original positions in an archaeological reconstruction.’

Their world is like a labyrinth, and there’s always a new path. You don’t know where you’re going, but it takes you to another world.

Nicolas Ghesquière (fashion designer, former Balenciaga creative director)

The Bookends

One of M/M’s most iconic creations is the Agent, which provided the basis for Neale’s design. He explains, ‘this super-deluxe edition takes a more sculptural approach to the two volumes, holding them in a deliberately monumental way. In powder-coated cast iron, MM’s Agent becomes a natural bookend—flat-backed and weighty, with a tome-like base.’ For fans of M/M’s work, print designers, bibliophiles and book collector’s, the bookends will bring character and heft to any library.

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Artists who make history… able to push the boundaries of their medium… defying all forms of categorisation and blurring the lines between graphic design and art.

Vogue Italia

I have always admired them; they are brilliant.

Miuccia Prada (fashion designer)

Meet the author

Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak formed their studio, M/M (Paris), in 1992. Since then, it has become one of this generation's most distinctive and influential voices in graphic design.

Originally working for small independent music labels, M/M soon caught the attention of the fashion world, and later developed long-term collaborations with a rich array of iconic artists, art directors and musical artists - most notably, Björk and Madonna. Across more than three decades, M/M has treated graphic design not simply as communication, but as a way of constructing worlds.