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, September 18, 2006
Back from Copenhagen! and other interesting happenings.
yoyo!! yup, been travelling in copenhagen, a city of denmark, over the weekends with 2 ntu gals (yy and jj), yanling, cw and yh. i think the place is much exciting than stockholm! will be posting the photos soon~ haha i have to start posting those on Malmo and Stockholm too. I really prefer those types of streets where buskers and musicians perform along them. what is really delightful is that they each have their own albums and people actually buy! I was tempted to buy the one with those tribal (abit red indian looking people) group that blew very good melodies from their woodwind pipes (not sure wat they are called) and mixed with light drums and cymbals etc. It's like modern new age with tribal sensation. That is one of my favourite music genre I wish to hear. very meditative and inspiring. It is those type of music when u close your eyes and sceneries form in ur mind, seeing the boundless blue sky that meets the endless stretch of meadows. You hear the rustle of grass as the gentle gushes of wind embrace the land (it was very windy in the city lor!!). Then big flock of birds fly pass above the sky as you dance through the meadows. For a moment, you feel you have stretched your wings and flew into the arms of pure freedom and nirvana - broken away from the vice of chains and attachments of life. That is what I feel.
ok, enough 'intro' of copenhagen trip~ will elaborate more with the photos!.
Back to sch on Monday today and realised it's basically own working time, so one does not need to come today actually... haiz~ anyway did abit of work before I went back after my laptop's batt died on me. On my ride to Willy's to get some bread and other groceries, I was happily cycling along this narrow path and then from the oppo end came 2 cyclists. i think the lane is juz too narrow for 3 ppl to cycle and so, i was rubbed or hit from my side and yes, another dramatic fall forward. Well my fault, cos my lack of skills cannot help to prevent the collision, or maybe I should have stopped and squeezed next to the bushes to let them pass first. Or how I wish the guy can stop talking to the girl next to him and slow down to get behind her, so that we can each have half of the lane. Whatever it is, done is done. knee abrasion is slight, thanks to my poor jeans. left hand gets most of friction as i supported myself on the rough tar road while i slided. And y is there a 2 cm bloody cut on one of the bruised finger? oh, maybe that guy's bicycle handle or watever sharp stuff scratched it. shalala... bicycle collision. But seems like the other guy is totally fine and not knocked off at all, in fact he didnt know he hit me and carried on cycling abit until he heard my fall and 'ahh!' sound. haha~~ Then when i finally got my groceries and went back hostel, someone else occupied my bicycle slot that is allocated in correspond to our room number... i wrote a note for it and moved the heavy bike away to one side before i could put mine in. what a crap day for bicycle stuff. How many times more of injuries do I have to get? I wish it can juz stop already. Enough! :P
Dreams:
The night before we set off for the morning train to Copenhagen, I had a dream... I believe some of u have known that I have been having stressful dreams or work-related dreams ever since I entered uni. That night I dreamt of this group of china clients asking me to renovate a hotel due to poor sound system at the lobby, and also the exhaust system to remove fumes from their fire decorations quickly. I was so stressed as I promised them I will come up with something within a week and was trying to take down their company's name and address. Luckily halfway, the alarm clock rang me up from the dream. eek...
I had another dream last night after I came back to lund after the weekend trip. BUT this time, it is not related to architecture. It is not a nightmare, nor a horror one. But it still abit shocking to me... I was very tired then and I collasped on my bed before I can cook noodles for my dinner (yah, I skipped my dinner as a result, not on purpose!). I dreamt about my JC gang aka sixoneders... and some mean things happened to one of us and we were like trying to help but abit helpless...Dont ask me the details, dun wish to mention it. I was so horrified tat I snapped out from it wide-eyed. The clock read 3am. gosh... I washed up abit before going back to sleep again... gheez, this is the first time I dreamt something bad happened to my dear 61 frens. I know in real life they will be blessed and nothing of that sort will happen.
right, need to do work now~ wait for my photos!!
(ps, if u still experience some misalignments on my blog, pls check if u have the encoding changed to Unicode UTF-8. It is due to the chinese text on previous post.)
Come to Netherlands... they more bike frenly here.
haha i wont wanna bike anymore if given the choice haha~~~~~
my supposedly-new shoes are currently torn and tattered from all these scratches and fall, til they look like 10 years old....