MAN ABOUT TOWN #11 »NOT THINKING STRAIGHT« — THE GAY ISSUE / OUT NOW! / CREATIVE DIRECTION BY M/M (PARIS)

© by Man About Town / Creative Direction M/M (Paris) / Editor-in-chief Philip Utz
Man About Town #11 / 230x300mm / 244 pages / full color / matt and coated papers / includes 6 posctards / featuring Mykki Blanco / Scotty Bowers / Benjamin Bruno / Richard Buckley / Julie Burchill / Howard Cruse / Lisa Eisner / Erwan Frotin / Jamie Hawkesworth / Inez & Vinoodh Matadin / Marc Jacobs / Le1f / Matt Lucas / Ian McKellen / Alasdair McLellan / Brian Moylan / Glenn O’Brien / Pet Shop Boys / Jean-François Piège / Pierre et Gilles / Paolo Roversi / Karim Sadli / Joel Simkhai / Mark Simpson / Matt Tyrnauer / Bernhard Willhelm + the boyfriends of five A-list designers speak out for the first time! / Last but not least: A lot of art by the amazing M/M (Paris).
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»M TO M OF M/M (PARIS)« CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF WORKS BY M/M (PARIS) / RELEASE: OCTOBER 2012

© by M/M (Paris) / Editing Emily King / Foreword Hans Ulrich Obrist / Design Graphic Thought Facility
Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak originally established M/M (Paris) as a graphic design studio in 1992. Their close associations with the music, fashion and art worlds have led to their becoming one of the most distinctive and acclaimed creative voices of their generation, within graphic design and beyond.
Published to mark their twentieth anniversary, this is the definitive monograph. It records hundreds of their mind-blowing projects, each represented in illustrations and photographs and arranged alphabetically from ‘M’ to ‘M’. While print, drawing, photography and an unconventional approach to typography lie at the heart of M/M’s work, they have also produced films, objects or interiors. ‘Our work is about expressing the idea of a dialogue. We transfer elements from fashion to music to art and back again, and keep using different mediums,’ they explain. Each work they produce is unique, but certain elements recur and reverberate — leitmotifs that draw their output, despite its range, into a unified whole.
The monograph features collaborations with the finest from a spectrum of creative worlds, including fashion works with the likes of Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs and Yohji Yamamoto; music works with Benjamin Biolay, Björk, Kanye West and Madonna; magazines such as Vogue Paris, Arena Homme+ or Interview; art projects and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern and Guggenheim Museum.
Interviews with some of their closest collaborators — such as Björk, Nicolas Ghesquière, Pierre Huyghe, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Sarah Morris or Glenn O’Brien, as well as Amzalag and Augustyniak themselves, tell M/M’s story. These texts reveal their areas of interest, define their position both within graphic design and beyond and shed new light on the duo’s creative process. Internationally renowned art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist contributes a preface, while contemporary artist Philippe Parreno offers an essay about their joint projects.
These multiple conversations and recollections of shared experiences paint an overview of the evolution of the creative world since the early 90s. This ambitious monograph is a rare document and unparalleled insight into the work and minds of Europe’s most thoughtful and influential image-makers.
M to M of M/M (Paris)
Paperback, with plastic dust jacket
Over 1.000 illustrations all in colour
35 x 26 cm, 528pages
£42.00 — October 2012
English version published by Thames & Hudson
Version française publiee par les Editions de la Martiniere
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MAN ABOUT TOWN #10 S/S 2012 / BARKING MAD »THE DOG ISSUE« OUT NOW! / CREATIVE DIRECTION BY M/M PARIS

© by Man About Town / (Creative) Direction M/M (Paris) Music Nirota Steel »There’s A Word« (Hollie Records) / Editor in Chief Philip Utz
MAN ABOUT TOWN #10
The Dog Issue
230 x 300 mm / 244 pages
Incl. 6 postcards
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