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.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Recent happenings - PART 1
okok sorry ppl, i know i had been MIA ... my apologies. also feeling that my blog lacking readers, i oso not motivated to post stuff ... or maybe u guys keeping quiet to wait for me to post stuff??? oh watever~~~ lol... ok alot of things happening... so i am going to separate into 2 parts. this is part one. This part one will be saying wat happen on 8th dec.... hehe .... 2 events happened on that day. first, i went to St Francis Methodist sch with some anime club frens. Becos the sch had this exchange activities with japanese students from Kaishi Gakuen School. They formed into different groups such as music, basketball, animation, fashion, design etc. These are their stubjects to study anyway. so cool rite!!!!! bet u wanna go to their sch liao.... come on, basketball as a subject leh!! animation too!! wat the... anyway, we anime club ppl will go into animation grp. It is a one day event, juz socialising with them bah...
The second event after that was Ailing's bdae party at Coastal Sands!!!!! wah~~~ dun worry, i posted photos for the 2 events already. scroll down to see later.
ok, for the jap exchange, we gathered in the morning at abt 9:30-10am at the sch's assembly hall... and so i met my anime frens and got a seat to sit beside them. AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!!!!!! wah lao.... damn anime lar. The chair i chose to sit happened to have a broken leg. Once i sit, immediate i sat down flat on the floor!!!!!!!! wat the........... i 'aaahh!' pretty loud somemore.... the guy and girl beside me helped me up and got me another chair.... wat a grand animated entrance by me... so paiseh.....
After some speech, we went up to respective classrooms according to our group. we are in the animation grp and we further sub divided into mini grps. we got a gal and guy in my grp. And it happened that they are very quiet and shy type... and yea, they tried to speak english with us. but i think ended up err..... luckily we have wai yee who could speak rather good jap to help us... communicate haha... she become so middlewoman. i think after this exchange, the jap students would feel rather disappointed at their eng i think... feel sorry for them... So the situation was rather awkward with communication problem. finally lunch time and we all went down for the food....
This is the time to bio other jap ppl... lol nah, i am not pervert ok. ok lar, shuai ge got a few... got one very funny!! he purposely wore a female hair clip, pink one with patterns to clip at the front of his head on his hair!!! and somehow he can carry it off!!! haha is he a trend setter?? gosh.... i think no singapore guy dares to do that lor.... ppl will look at him with really weird eyes....
anyway lets go on to talk abt chio bus. There were more chio bus ard!! And guess what, I found 2 ayumi look-alike gals!!! I call them Ayumi no.1 and no.2. The number one is the more chio and more look like Ayumi hamasaki. She is rather short too.... however damn pretty. btw, alot of the gals put very very thick make up. but the ones in our animation grp did not. I think those gals in the other grp like music, fashion etc are those more hip and more dressed up kind. Yea, they all look so nice in their uniform anyway. So this ayumi no.1 happened to sit in front of me... aiya, too bad no courage to ask her to take photo with me... lol
After lunch, we went up to the classrooms again. We began our proper activity.. manga drawing. The jap students tried to start the activity by giving a speech in eng.... hmm though they had it written down but still had difficulty to read... i think they write better than speaking. Anyway, we redivided into 2 grps. my grp focus more on manga. the other one more on animation (those tt use alot of pages of paper and u flip them to create motion). After drawing, we were asked to give comments, den we exchanged our drawings... lol... 2nd drawing for the day...
The activity ended at abt 3 pm, and we had to go down to assembly hall again. This is my last chance to take photos with the jap students!!! but i haf no courage to approach them.... >.< They called out each grp of people to come out grp-by-grp to take photos of them. I was sitting at the last row, so i had to zoom in to the stage to take photos of them... this explains why my photos quite blur as u can see later.... yep..... finally after the gift exchanged, everyone left the hall. the jap students had to rush back with their coach. In the frantic moment, i managed to ask 2 gals to join us in the photo taking... they abit shocked cos they are not in my grp but anyway they still take with us. ANd one of them is Ayumi 2!!! hehe~~~
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ok, after this, i had to go to pasir ris mrt to meet up with archi frens to go ailing bdae party~~ jovie went with her other grp of frens, so didnt see her until at the chalet.
^^ and oh, ailing rebonded her hair and alot of ppl say very nice~~ hehe.... her dress sense oso changed.... i think she increased her wardrobe.... damn pretty. lol~ hmm someone will be anxious to see her photos.... *erhem* *coughs* *wink*~~
anyway, by the time i reached, there were so many ppl already!!! jovie was already there bbqing!!! hehe we immediately pass presents and cards to her and soon we were on the way eating... hehe, i was the fish seller then... cos jovie and some ppl passed me fishes and fishes, oh stingray too. so me and brendie etc happily combine forces to open the hot aluminium foil and i shouted " fish for sale. anyone wans fish?" then ppl will flock to me to grab bites of the fishes... hahahaa~~~ but after some time, i dun get anymore fish stock, so i closed my shop. OOO yes, we had cheesecake!!!!! and it was damn delicious!!! it was from ailing's sis's bf's shop. hehe... so nice.... feel so envious~~~ to haf a bf that can make such good cheesecake~~ >.<
Quite some time later, finally we going to haf the bdae singing and cutting cake session. ailing was so excited and stood there nervously. hehe.... of cos la, so many ppl look at u and singing.... i will also feel like hiding somewhere too. yea, then is phototaking session, den eating the cake... we were quite full by then. It was rather enjoyable for us cos it is like a archi gathering too cos we are one of the biggest gang of ppl to come.... or probably the biggest. yup, shld be about all~~ go too much details u guess will sleep lol.... enjoy the photos!!
