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.
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
2nd and 3rd day at work...
hehe, I didnt post about yesterday. So shall do it now. well Day 2 is much better becos the rush of that project was over as the presentation was yesterday. So yesterday we were juz helping out some new models, while the architect(boss) and his crew of designers etc all presenting their big project. Alot of foriegners came to the office, some wearing power suits. I think some of them came from Libya becos the project was about landscaping a few places in that country. They were discussing and giving comments here and there. Hmm there are few changes to be made but generally they praised the work and were very pleased with it. I heard that these clients are one of the few that the landscape architect respected. Oh well.... So we 'intern' students 'hid' at the side of the office doing our own work and listening to the presentation. What a live crit it is and it lasted for an hour or more.... tsk tsk. Not the hurried 15-30 min crit we had with tutors in sch.
Anyway, so Day 2 was more relaxed compared to Day 1, and not doing any tough work.... though I muz admit that cutting the 5mm double-side card foam board to make contours for a model really drain my energy. Left the office at 7pm... Hey still 1 hour OT lor....
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Day 3....which is today... i think the staff here can take half day or full day off if they got do overnight in office each time. Since on my day 1, they rushed work for that presentation until 4am, they took leave for today. So only 3 staffs besides the 5 of us were present. So the office was quiet. Then me and Ying had to do 5 houses models.... think deadline is this fri. (BTW, me and Ying working on different stuff from the 3 other friends). The funny thing is, we had to get materials from Art Friend ourselves. So since we wanna start to work on them earlier, both of us hurried down to Art Friend by Taxi. It was abt 10 am when we reached bras basah complex.... den we saw the shop not opened... so silly of us to forgot abt opening hours... so we went to the food court there to drink or eat some breakfast stuff after some shopping in Popular. yea, got myself a new mech pencil... lost mine during UM trip.
When we went up at 10:50, the shop was already opened... so silly again, we didnt check their opening time and tot it opened at 11.... anyway, we were laffing and thinking wat the staff will wonder why we were taking so long to buy materials. Finally after more than 1 hr, we were back in office to work. At abt 1pm, we went out to eat lunch... lol...out again sia. The 5 of us (nus archi batch), met up with 2 others, each working at other places, to haf lunch together... so nice~
The rest of the afternoon was working on the models and models, nothing but models! Ying cut the plans out from the thick board until like crazy... me doing calculations for the complex double pitched roof and cutting the wood pieces out and gluing them together. So u see both of us screaming 'quietly' at each other and pulling hair. Cos Ying had to cut little gaps to fit walls in, which is so tiny and hard to do. And me, keep racking my brains and making many mistakes in drafting out the little roof pieces to cut. But in the end, things still work out la..... Abt 7:15pm we left office and Ying's Mum gave me a lift and dropped me near my house... yea~~ so nice~ as i mentioned b4, i like car lifts~ hehe.
Haha, how i wish everday can be like today, with not much ppl ard, can do our own work, listen to our own mp3 players and chit chat with one another while working. But i think not possible lar. The boss wanna see one of our model tomolo liao~ Me and ying haven finished a single one yet, ahhh! tomolo muz pia like crazy!! Ahhhh
hey ur OT isn't all that bad lar... ur work isn't that bad, and OT a bit... well, quite normal in working life bah...
enjoy ur work~~ =)
are the models really tat hard to make?
OT is alot when they wanna rush for some projects lor. It is common in their office. And in any architecture firms too, i know that. But we are really underpaid.
Making models hard or easy depends on that particular design. some not easy.