About Karl.

karl.souders@gmail.com

I like to design and render and draw and teach. I'm from Nebraska. I've got a great family. I eat. I drink. I swim. I ride my bike. I backpack & snowshoe. I'm human.

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -Vonnegut

The Basics

2d Software

Adobe CS (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), MS Office products, BlueBeam.

3d Software

Sketchup + VraY, Revit & Autocad, wee-bit of Solidworks, Vectorworks & Rhino. Modeling & preparing solids for 3d printing (Makerbot). Lumion & Enscape.

Graphic Design and layout: corporate branding, logos, page layout.

Drawing: graphite, ink, marker, color pencil, watercolor, charcoal, pastel. Hybrid digital/hand coloring and compositing.

Photography: Digital and film photography. Studio lighting. Digital restoration & post processing. 35mm & 120/220 formats. Hand and minilab printing on resin coated and fiber based papers. RA4, C41, E6 & Type R processing. Copy negatives, dupe slides, slide mounting. Chemistry maintenance.

Print making: wood/lino cut, silk screen, traditional lithography, etching/drypoint (copper plate).

Earthenware ceramics.

Furniture Design.

Bronze and aluminum casting. 

Experience

Architectural

2021-Current: Designer, Salazar Architect Inc., Portland OR
Design, documentation and Revit management on affordable housing and not-for-profit projects. This includes site visits, drawing as-builts, client & consultant correspondence and coordination. Set building and printing, assembly and delivery. Bluebeam markups and sessions for team coordination. Bluebeam project for file management to consultants. Proposal layout and minor copy writing. Illustration using Revit and Enscape.

2018-2021: Architectural Staff, LSW Architects, Vancouver WA
Design and documentation for education and tenant improvement projects. MEP and consultant coordination. Client / stakeholder interviewing, collaboration and correspondence. Set printing (Revit) assembly and delivery. Bluebeam project management and coordination including uploading/downloading backgrounds & progress sets. Bluebeam sessions for internal QC. Contractor coordination including RFI responses. 2018 IBC research and adherence. Illustration using Sketchup with Enscape and Lumion. Pre-design and marketing illustration. A teensy bit of hand illustration, graphic design and copy writing for marketing and awards submissions.

2013-2018: Designer / Illustrator, C2K Architecture, Portland OR
Design & illustration for multi-family housing, PT/Curtain wall and 4/5 over 1. Advanced modeling and rendering in Sketchup with Vray for exterior, interior, day& night scenes. Model translation for 3d printing (Makerbot Replicator Gen.2, PLA). Preliminary design zoning analysis for pre-app & architectural review. Vray swarm distributed rendering I.T. and farm management.

2011-13: Exhibit Designer, OMSI, Portland OR
Exhibit design for traveling exhibits and exhibit sales, including Zoo In You, and the Shake House for California Academy of Science. Project management. Space planning and coordination with exhibit houses for all incoming traveling exhibits. Illustration, graphic design, package layout and printing.

2008-11: Freelance, Minneapolis MN and Portland OR
Architectural design and illustration. Drafting and modeling. Corporate branding with placeholder web development. Product and industrial design. Photo restoration.

2008: Designer / Illustrator, Urbanworks Architecture, Minneapolis MN
Project: Covington at Norman Pointe. Architectural design, design visualization, graphic design, package layout and printing. Introduction to Revit.

2005-08: Designer / Illustrator, Ankrom Moisan, Portland OR
Design and illustration for feasibility studies. Hand and digital rendering. Graphic design and package layout for client deliverables. Large format printing and mounting.

Educator

2007-Present: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Portland State University, Portland OR
Arch 120 Visual Communications I - beginning drawing for first year architecture students. 

Formal Education

2004: Master of Architecture, University of Oregon
Thesis work: Tenon Center for Juvenile Rehabilitation. Teaching Fellowships for two drawing courses and Spatial Composition.

1999: Bachelor of Arts, Fine & Performing Arts
Printmaking, drawing, photography and ceramics. Minor in history of film.

other things to look at:

my old site is a mouthfull: independentillustration.com

Souders family history: oldmansouders.com