Austrian designer Philipp Doringer took a master’s degree in Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven. He is currently working at Studio Joost Grootens in Amsterdam, run by the self-taught graphic designer who also helms the Eindhoven course.
‘This was always my dream collaboration, so I am quite happy with that,’ says Doringer. ‘I'd like to work on my own one day and open a studio together with a designer friend of mine.’
His graduation project book, ‘The Imprecision in Precision’, currently awaits a publisher. Doringer’s work focuses on cartographic design, using maps to tell stories as well as highlight their potential for exacerbating conflict and chaos. ‘The Imprecision in Precision’ brings together every border in the world, ‘a growing archive of every line ever drawn to represent borders collected in browsable files, and a world map depicting territorial thinking taken to an extreme’. His intention was to highlight how two-dimensional lines can never capture the intricacies and complexities of a three-dimensional world. ‘In fact, [it] adds more chaos, conflict, uncertainty and imprecision,’ he says.
An earlier project, ‘Jewish Vienna’, is a richly researched cartography of Vienna’s Second District, home of its Jewish community. Ghostly imprints on the surface of the map reveal the scope of the deportations during the Nazi era, with old and new information juxtaposed to provide a historical comparison of then and now.
Another student project, the ‘Atlas Of No Direction Home’, is an obsessive gazetteer of ‘all the locations relevant to Bob Dylan’s career’. The project mixes maps with lists and coordinates, and Doringer’s talent for organising information is evident on every page as he brings together ‘all the places mentioned in [Dylan’s] songs, the towns where his studio albums were recorded, the venues of his tours, and other places that played an important role in his life’.
Dream collaborator: Joost Grootens.
INFORMATION
Our Next Generation showcase of outstanding new talents appears in the January 2022 issue of Wallpaper* (W*273). Subscribe today!
-
Looking forward to Tate Modern’s 25th anniversary partyFrom 9-12 May 2025, Tate Modern, one of London’s most adored art museums, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a lively weekend of festivities
-
‘Music is in the DNA of the brand’: AV Vattev on creating this year’s loudest accessoryRising London designer AV Vattev – who has recently outfitted Charli XCX and Troye Sivan for their viral ‘Sweat’ tour – talks about the influence of music on his ‘bold and unapologetic’ collections
-
The case of Casa Batlló: inside Antoni Gaudí’s ‘happiest’ workCasa Batlló by Catalan master architect Antoni Gaudí has just got a refresh; we find out more
-
Supergraphics pioneer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: ‘Sure, make things big – anything is possible'94-year-old graphic designer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon talks radical typography, motherhood, and her cool welcome for St Moritz
-
Montreux Jazz Festival posters: a visual historyAs artist Guillaume Grando (SupaKitch) unveils his poster for the 57th Montreux Jazz Festival (30 June - 15 July 2023), we reflect on the most memorable designs since 1967, including from David Bowie to Andy Warhol and Camille Walala
-
AA Bronson on the radical, enduring legacy of General IdeaGeneral Idea, an art group that pioneered a queer aesthetic, is celebrated in a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada (opened during Pride Month and running until 20 November 2022). Surviving member AA Bronson speaks about their origins, and impact on art and social justice
-
A Practice for Everyday Life gives 59th Venice Biennale a richly surreal graphic identityLondon-based graphic design studio A Practice for Everyday Life (APFEL) gives an otherworldly identity to the surrealism-infused 59th Venice Biennale theme ‘The Milk of Dreams’
-
Inside Na Kim's vibrant playground for all agesSouth Korean graphic designer Na Kim's ‘Bottomless Bag’, installed at Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, is a vivid, geometrical exploration of memory and everyday objects. We offer a virtual tour and find out how the concept came to be
-
Chiachi Chao’s typography blends Western and Eastern writing stylesOur Next Generation 2022 showcase shines a light on 22 outstanding graduates from around the globe, in seven creative fields. We profile Taiwanese type and graphic designer Chiachi Chao, a graduate of ECAL, Lausanne
-
Tom Hingston on designing for Serpentine Galleries, the V&A, and Wallpaper*
London-based art director and graphic designer Tom Hingston discusses his visual identities for Serpentine Galleries
-
Feminist art: a graphic historyA new graphic novel, The Women Who Changed Art Forever, by Valentina Grande and Eva Rosetti, tells the story of feminist art through four pioneers: Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls
