Name : Juliana S.Y. Chan
Known as : North Swallow / Hoku Tsubameko. Currently renamed to NS Chan Studio
Occupation:
- Current: Architect
- Others: Freelance graphics designer and Illustrator
Societies:
- Alumni of NUS Students' Comics and Animation Society
- Artists Society of Singapore (ASOS)- Secretary
[Profile in ASOS can be view
here.]
Hobbies:
- Painting
- Drawing
[More Introduction can be viewed at my Official Website
here.]
: Achievements :
Year 2015
- Pencil Drawing “Young Memories” featured in American art magazine, “Strokes of Genius 8”. Oil Painting “Simple. Happiness” exhibited at “SG50 National Day Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition 2015”, organized by Ngee Ann Cultural Centre Ngee Ann Kongsi. Oil Painting “Sri Mariamman Temple in Chinatown, Singapore” selected for “Arising Star” FASS Artists Grand Art SG50 Exhibition, organized by the Federation of Art Societies (Singapore). Oil Paintings "Her Family" and "Still Life No.3 - Together with Joy" selected for "Blossom and Flourish" Singapore National Women's Art Exhibition 2015 (in conjunction with the celebration of SG50), organized by the Federation of Art Societies (Singapore).
Year 2014
- Pencil Drawing “Honesty of Time” featured in American art magazine, “Strokes of Genius 7”.
Year 2012
- Assistant Treasurer of Artists Society of Singapore. Works featured in art publication of Artists Society of Singapore.
Year 2010
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Extravaganza - Graphite 2010 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 2010 at Suntec Hall, 14 Nov.
Year 2009
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Extravaganza - Graphite 2009 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 09 at Suntec Hall, 21 Nov.
- Thesis project selected for City Exhibition (NUS Architecture Graduation Exhibition- "How does your garden grow?") held at Iluma Urban Entertainment Centre, 13 Jun.
Year 2008
- 2nd Prize Winner for Open Character Design Digital Category in Graphite 2008 competition. Exhibition and Prize Ceremony held with Anime Festival Asia 08 at Suntec Hall, 22 Nov.
- Exhibited individual installation for team exhibition “Site, Situation, Spectator” collaborated among Department of Architecture, University Scholar Programme and NUS Museum. Installation is exhibited in NUS Museum.
Year 2006
- Selected for Student’s Exchange Programme (SEP) to Lund, Sweden.
- Design Projects (Year 3 semester 1 and semester 2) selected for Department exhibition.
Year 2003-4
- Head of Manga Sub-Committee in NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society.
- Pioneer as Head of 2004 “Graphite” Organising Committee to organise first TERTIARY manga drawing competition for 3 universities: NUS, NTU and SMU.
- Design Project (Year 1 semester 2) selected for Department exhibition.
Year 2001-2
- Assistant Secretary and Head of Publicity of Hwa Chong Junior College Chinese Orchestra (HCCO).
- Won gold medal in team competition (HCCO) in Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) 2001.
- Performed duet in HCCO concert at Victoria Concert Hall 2002.
- Awarded First in comic illustration for competition organised by HCJC’s Comics Club 2002.
Year 1997-2000
- Awarded Best in Art Elective Programme (AEP) subject in 1997, 1998 and 2000.
- GCE O’ Levels: 9 distinctions, includes Higher Art Distinction in AEP, 1997-2000.
- Selected by school NYGH and Ministry of Education to represent Singapore in 1999 to Atlanta, Georgia, USA for overseas summer programme in Atlanta College of Fine Arts.
- 3rd prize winner in Singapore Story – Youth Edition Art competition organised by National Youth Council in 1998.
- Merit Prize winner in Care-for-Nature Spot-Art competition at Sungei Buloh Nature Park in 1998.
Year 1996
- Awarded 2nd position for Lions International Peace Poster Contest in Southeast Asia.
: Career History :
Associate at DP Architects, 2014-Current
Architectural Executive at DP Architects, 2012-2014
Architectural Assistant at DP Architects, 2009-2012
Freelance Graphics Designer, 2008-2011
Internship at K2LD Architects, 2007-2008
- Completed interior project for renovation of apartment at Hillington Green, Singapore.
- Completed interior project for creation of wedding banquet showroom at G-Hotel, Penang.
Internship at DP Architects Pte Ltd, 2006
- Participated in A&A works for Saint Andrew’s Cathedral, Singapore.
Internship at The Design Studio of Colin K. Okashimo and Associates, 2005
- Model-making
Freelance Graphics Designer, 2004 - Current
- T-shirt design for NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society.
- 2 Website Interface designs for NUS Students’ Comics and Animation Society, working with programmer.
- Poster Design for Graphite 2005 Competition.
- Costume designs for University Scholar Programme Rag Day 2004.
- Banner and nametag design for 3rd Great Asian Streets Symposium held in NUS, Department of Architecture.
- Logo and T-shirt design for Hall XI, FOC 2004 “Ignixion”, in Nanyang Technological University.
Multimedia Artist (contract-based), and Graphics Designer (freelance) at AsknLearn.com Pte Ltd, 2003-2004
- Participated in website competition.
- Developed illustrations and digital graphics for website layout or interface design, character design, stories illustrations, logos and icons, brochures, product covers, banners, posters, and simple computer-based animations.
- Participated in computer animated e-Learning softwares for educational uses.
: Qualifications/Education :
- Registered Architect - Qualified Person (QP) from 2012 - current.
- University Scholar's Programme, NUS, Singapore, 2009.
- Master Degree in Architecture, NUS, Singapore, 2009.
- Bachelor (Honours) Degree in Architecture, NUS, Singapore, 2003-2007.
Monday, May 23, 2005
UM Day 6&7 (16th&17th May)- Busiest days so far
These two days we were piaing like crazy for the presentation/report. So I couldn’t blog them until it is over. Cant really remember wat happen but juz keep on working in front of the laptop and transferring files among one another… whining, complaining, cursing for many of us….haha… not funny at that time of cos…
So on day 6 (Monday) night, we were all pulling hair for work after we came back from dinner at Coconut Hut which sells Italian food… elita and xuhui shared the same room with me in Baba House. But only in this room, xuhui is in my work grp. And the guy who always “quarrel” with me, cheewee (I called him Kiwi), came over to our room and worked overnight with me and xuhui. Elita and Xuhui slept at abt 2 plus… so left me and kiwi to pia the work… eng kiat was working in his room…. And he was asleep when we went to his room to ask something! Oh man…. Anyway, at abt 4 plus, 5, all of us cannot take it and slept in our own rooms. And the horrible thing is when we woke up at 7 plus or 8 plus on the next day, we found out that we actually have a presentation at 10am.. wah kao, die… we havent finish lor... so everything is very messily done…
Finally our presentation was over at 1 plus, abt 2pm, we were like liberated from hell or something and we became hyper… we went for lunch, den shop ard the shophouses. Some ppl bought a lot of antique stuff… I cannot find anything nice that I like… haven settle some gifts….headache. We went back and some of us had to change room cos the counter ppl cock up lor, gave us the wrong room…sian, so we had to move our stuff and luggage again… wah, shifting here and there…. So troublesome, After that,in the evening, we went to the town area, the shopping mall…. Wah~~ u know wat, the very expensive Vincci shoes (not sure if this is the right spelling) u have seen ard cost abt 30 plus Sing dollars here lor… DAMN CHEAP. No wonder elita went crazy! Hahaha~~ I was very tempted too~~ lol…. She got some tops from the Factory Outlet Shop (FOS) of genuine brand/stuff at really cheap prices. Again I didn’t buy anything… Finally we were looking at the watch stall at the grd floor… selling fake watches… but they looked really real. Johnny needed a watch so he bought an “adidas” watch at 25 RM… wah, it is a good buy lor… the watch is really cool haha… I bought a watch too… cos I think my current silver watch is spoiling soon becos I have been using it sooo often…
After we returned from the mall, it is abt 9:30. we three gals wanna send our clothes to the laundry shop but it was closed! So ok… tml den. Some of the guys wanna go Puri to tap on the wireless connection and play games… So I super happy and went along too, as I have been waiting for this day! I played abit and abt 10:45, me and rudy went to some drinking shop to find rachelle, elita, kiwi and Johnny. They drank but I didn’t lar… We chatted abit while rudy left earlier. After 12 plus, near 1 am, I returned to hotel to bathe and came out again with rudy to go Puri Hotel and tap on the wireless, again! Haha…
A lot of mosquitoes flying ard. We sat at this area which has a lot of swallows sleeping near the ceiling on their cute nests… I showed a photo of it before in one of the previous entries... We noticed that the swallows are soo cute, becos one side are couple areas… where each nest was shared by 2 birds… and they formed one row. Other side is for the singles or more community type of housing area… and they are very noisy…. Den one swallow very naughty and disturbed another swallow of one couple. The angry disturbed one chased after the naughty one, flying in circles ard the room… and finally rest in its nest besides his/her partner… haha… later we moved to the lobby area…
Rudy overheard that the 2 guards at the entrance were speaking in Malay and complaining that we 2 are juz using their system blah blah. So rudy put on an act… so finally. We talked very loudly to ourselves, purpose is to let them hear us… So we complained that we waited so long for our professor but she never come down. Etc etc…. haha I have to restrain myself from laughing… rudy is a good actor manz…. Finally we decided to leave the place and rudy got the opportunity to speak to the guard and told him our profs are staying in Puri, while the students in Baba, so there will be in-and-out traffic to be expected… well, a nice ending for the act… so we went back to our rooms and called it a day. So eventful. I returned to find the gals already sleeping and I went to the toilet to wash clothes. Washed quite a few pieces.. and later to find my hands were so dry and pain from the washing….haiz….
Everyone away or busy on msn, no one replied me except ahba, but only 2 sentences from him when I was walking out of the Puri Hotel.. too late. : ( where’s everybody…)
he actually bothered lol...i will only reply if im not on games