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Located in downtown Portland, Oregon, Knot Studio is a team of Environmental Graphic Designers and Landscape Architects with specialists in Environmental Justice and Ecological Planning.
Come be part of our collaborative design team, working in a historic, light-filled office space overlooking the central city’s waterfront park. Every member of Knot’s growing staff is creative and passionate about working together to enhance the human experience of place while reinvigorating the natural systems that sustain us.
We work across disciplines and at multiple scales for clients throughout the US and around the world on a wide array of meaningful project types, including higher education, healthcare, government, parks and recreation, workplace, and civic/arts facilities.
Current projects in the office include interactive EGD for Stanford University Center for Academic Medicine and work for the U.S. Department of State on new consulate facilities in Casablanca, Morocco and Merida, Mexico, and a new U.S. Embassy in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Our downtown location is easy to access by bike, on MAX light rail, or via a nice walk across one of Portland’s many bridges.
At Knot, we’re seeking a Senior Experiential Designer with a powerful balance of imaginative creativity and technical expertise to join our team of specialists in Experiential Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture, and Spatial Analytics. As a member of our studio, your role is essential to driving the ideation and realization of innovative placemaking, intuitive wayfinding, and complex sign systems. You’ve been doing this for a while and can innately see the intricate connection between visual communication and the built environment.
You’re passionate about shaping memorable experiences, tackling complex design challenges, have a keen adeptness at navigating several project demands simultaneously, and maintain an unwavering enthusiasm for the co-mingling of ideas across disciplines. Your technical skills are razor-sharp, and you’re extremely agile in the tools of your trade. You thrive at both guiding and contributing to all aspects of a project, from conceptual development to detailed production drawings. Without a doubt, you’re a proactive communicator, client-focused, and the depth of your industry knowledge allows you to mobilize teams and drive creative development and project delivery.
As a member of our studio…
As a Senior Experiential Designer…
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Location
This is a full-time position, located in our Portland, Oregon office where we offer a unique approach to flexible work ways. We do encourage remote applicants with qualifying experience to apply.
Why Knot?
With projects spanning the globe, our passion lies in shaping the human experience of place and reinforcing the natural systems that sustain us. We are specialists in Experiential Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture, and Spatial Analytics. Our work deepens connections to environment and place, and we believe that designed experiences must be more than the sum of their parts. This requires the application of thoughtful, anti-disciplinary problem solving. At Knot, we are committed to a cross-pollination of practice among areas of expertise, operating within a diverse, interdependent ecosystem of ideas.