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.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Buried with work~
This is the mad period of time for archi students now.... The horror is our studio is darn screwed up this time since we have a tutor who thinks we are functioning in a company with huge amt of manpower.... but no, we are mere students who are not experienced to deal with problems fast, problems that are so simple to him.
But since he worried for us and not irresponsible like some other tutors, we still worked very hard. But of cos not juz for him, mainly for ourselves as this is the last sem to secure our Hons. Uncertainties lie ahead, especially for me. This sem everything is in chaos and rush. I really have no confidence of wat future lies ahead for this. All I can do is do my best now.
Yesterday was a relaxing Fri. I woke up in the afternoon and did some work before going to Holland V to meet up with the sixoneders for Mei's bdae celebration. We had pizzas at Spizza and later headed to TCC for deserts but their cakes look abit dull. But the drinks were delicious :p I think our topic of conversations will never fail to touch on our future titles. For example, prof Teo, prof Chan.... etc etc.... and about movies, n many others that never fail to bring us to laughter. So much to talk since we had met up lesser this sem. But I think we will have more this coming hols hopefully despite many of the gals starting to work etc.... Hehe Venki already had his interviews. Mei, Jo, yock oso .... I haven though.... haiz cos now to archi students, it is "the world can fall for all his care, but nothing shall come between the completion for our design submission!! This is all in the world I care now!~" Yep, so we are now zoombies. I am one now. But will still appreciate ppl greeting me on msn to cheer me on for this mental, spiritual marathon. The battle has started, the flags have risen. Drums have rolled and our men are ready to charge. :) Chiong!!!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Mad jumble of dreams
For the past few weeks I am like sleeping at 5am and wake up at 11 or 12 noon. Today I felt extremely tired and could not wake up totally... kept waking up and falling back to sleep or being subconscious at times when mum tried to wake me up. And my dreams got jumble all together in a crazy episode of story. Crazy i tell ya.
It started off sweet with little baby penguins. I dunno why they appeared maybe becos of the TV advertisements on the 3 or 4 worthy world documentary movies. One of those is "March of the Penguins". I think the advertisement got too often that it went into my brain. And the best thing is I am playing with the penguins with other kids. Awww....
den suddenly I went back to this particular resort which had a furniture shop nearby. I paid a visit to the shop which showcases lots of wood and glass furniture. And I even test on one chair by sitting on it... And I was chatting with the shopowner and even asked for his namecard as I find his stuff reasonable. Omg, did I spent too much time thinking of furniture when I am planning my room units for my design work? No leh, I am only concerned with laying out the furniture. heck care what type lor. haiz.
Anyway after that me and some frens were like walking around some showrooms with pretty interiors and we were looking at the materials they use. And then we went to the toilets and saying how the extra set of toilets is taking up space and considering of removing it.... Err... I it muz be due to the planning of room units from my work again. And the next moment things went CRAZY in my dreams. We were in the toilets then, and suddenly terrorists appeared, lead by an evil female terrorist!!! They threatened to kill us unless we do something which I forgot. So me and my frens were like running frantically out of the building and into the garden. Then dunno how come there's this staircase leading to sunken garden and midway there's a secret door and both of us (dunno why become 2 person) went into the secret tunnel behind the door. Wah.... why did fantasy stuff appeared.... I didn't read storybooks nor watch movies nowadays.... Maybe due to the fact that I listened to 933 and they kept mentioned about the upcoming Pirates of Carribean 3 movie..... hmmmmm
what the hell...... so interesting. Anyway I think my brain cannot continue the terrorist story so I forced myself to stop these nonsense and wake up..... haiz....spare me .
Friday, March 23, 2007
Tea Party@6th Avenue with classic lines!
Due to the interim of other studios, our tutor managed to come and see our work at 7 plus pm.... yea, very late... and we were all hungry. By the time we finished our consultations with him, it was 9 plus and we all headed to 6th Avenue to celebrate Jy's upcoming bdae which is tml~
The waiting for pizzas was damn long, i think abt 30 mins.... sian... and when they came, we ate them like monsters. And the most amusing part about this dinner is our conversations or content of speech during the mission of cutting up each pizza into 12 pieces. It was very classic conversation, and some of us contributed a few sentences here and there.
I think the conversation is most understood for those who uses cadding softwares like autocad etc, otherwise one will not understand the full joke but i think the idea is pretty obvious to all la. There will be archi related terms inside too. I think I may missed out one or two stuff, this is wat I can recall as much as possible. If I miss out anything, do let me know!! ok it goes like this:
Ch was given the assignment to cut up the pizza. And so he started by trying to make the cutting of the halves equal. Impatient, Jing said:
"You know, you should
snap first, u know,
snap to centre den cut from that centre point"
Ch pondered and used knife to slightly cut the surface into halves and replied:
"No, you need to draw
guideline first mah"
so I added:
"huh, u mean u need
polar tracking issit..."
Laughter filled the room.
Ying added:
"Omg, what lousy
programme is this!..."
More laughter!!!
Ch continued to divide each quarter into thirds and Jing was dismayed at his judgement of division.
"hello, wrong liao la, the
angle is not even correct lor."
Jing not only QC-ing ch's cutting but also helping to turn the dish as he cut.
"eh, hello where got this programme so good har, not only help Qc-ing but also auto-
rotate lor!"
Ying: "wah! Auto
UCS!!!" (ucs here refers to the x,y,z pointer of the drawing screen)
Uncontrollable laughter!
At a point of time, Jing cannot resist herself but ate up a piece of cabbage as ch doing the cutting.
Ying: "wha! Still got auto delete
layer!!!"
Omg.... this is all madness.... haha
Right, this is such classic and amusing conversations that u can only find among archi students. aha... erm dunno what else I missed out. Any contributors pls let me know ya~
This weekend will be dreading to us but let us remain cheerful :)
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
MIA-ing
Sorry folks... Was into the peak of my design submission. left 3 weeks.
Hence I would be MIAing for this period of time. Same goes for MSN. Hope u guys understand.... Haiz.... :(
I will still pop by at times and write something heeehe. But going to be fewer la. k la, see ya all!!
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Crystal Jade~
I would like to thank my studiomates and archi frens for the pressies and wonderful dinner at Crystal Jade, lol though moi bdae is way over. Can't be helped I guess, our schedule is horribly messed up with work. So I really wanna thank my dear frens for taking time out to eat dinner together, and the effort to celebrate it. I think the most impt thing is having accompany to celebrate with you, having ppl ard. Nothing beats having frens around and chit chat. Thanks to the organiser too~ ^^
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Some nice show to recommend:
"我们之间的距离总是刚刚好，刚刚好到。。。
现在什么都没发生，但是永远都有可能发生什么
然而那一天，
我收到你传来的短训
那清清楚楚的87个子
我没有哭，可是我第一次知道心痛的感觉
你真的给了我自由了，我也不用再为你的幸福负责”
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《生日快乐》It is about how this couple comes together then they broke up. After that, they maintain some kind of mutual relationship between them, one that is better than good frens. It has been comfortable maintaining at a particular distance then. However one day out of the blue when she's on the train, the guy broke news to her via sms saying that he's getting married. 87 words come so sudden that she could not cry... but she felt the extreme pain in her heart. But on the other hand, she is relieved or freed from the responsibility of waiting and hoping. Nevertheless every year, she would still receive birthday wishes from him, and to her this is the only way that she knows at least he still cares for her, for the slightest bit. And she would keep all of these wishes and then send those 4 words back to him when it is his turn in 6 mths time. Every year.... every year...... Only 4 words, no more than that she would write, as any extra word will cause extra sadness. However this year, she did not receive birthday wishes from him even after waiting for 36 hours. what happened?
the story continues..... And this part I dunno either cos I myself havent watch it but to ying and ailing, it is super nice and touching. So hehe dun expect spoilers from me. The part above is juz introduction. The story is well written, and as usual, I love the words they used. Every word and sentence is carefully written. Short and precise, yet brings out the most feelings and thoughts from viewers or readers. Beautiful. Actor Louis Koo and actress 刘若英.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
NUS open house: COSPLAY photo!!!!
I volunteered to help the CFA ppl to distribute flyers etc.... And a few days ago then realised I have to cosplay during my duty.... Thanks to my presi~WY, for her wonderful pretty black uniform! It's comfortable and nice!!! :) And thanks to qh to be able to cosplay with me, else it'll be boring to give out flyers alone and very paiseh to walk around in cosplay clothes alone!! ok la, what we wearing are pretty presentable and not any weird costumes. Haha, we got alot of eyes on us though. Ok, here are the photos!! Note: This is my first time tying 2 pony tails to pass off as a young jappy student k!!! Haiz... so old liao still have to act young.... SOB!!! And my feet hurts from the 7cm heel boots! First time I ever wore such high ones!!!
This is the best duo photo of all, I think. haha This's a kawaii version! Act cute time!
This is my anime fren qh, who brought his sword!!! woooo made from solid wood and coated with lacquer.
Hehe, so I get to borrow it to swing around :p
So it's time to fight!!! Haha!!! Comedy sia, see how powerful I am!
Hoho, I angry liao~
Wana fight!? Come la!
We found a nice backdrop for more phototaking!! hehe. This is another duo photo.
The sword master wanna bi4 guan1 xiu1 lian4. And me.... dunno what I doing. rest my feet lor. But I like the lighting effect casting from the side.
Self photo... stern.
Lastly.... someone not happy at me for being 7cm taller than him due to my 7cm boots.... so....
Ok folks, that's all~ hope u all enjoyed them~ ^^
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Thank you~
Haha, wanna thank an anime fren for a bdae gift though it is several weeks after my bdae, and especially this year I didnt get to celebrate it. No cake to make wishes too. Becos I bear them in my mind constantly. Anyway, the words written on the card is rather meaningful, makes one think about all these years with the things we choose to do, how we make our choices, and how things will be different if we start doing things in different ways. Haiz.... years passed. Thanks fren for appreciating me as a valuable fren to you. :)
Time is a healer. And it goes well especially when our mind and soul is an equilibrium entity. Stimuli stirred up disturbances and agitated the surface into waves of troubles. And then resonance dies and the soul is back to a stagnant pool of water, clear to let one sees deep down into the sea bed, without clogging of vision and mind.
Recovering. Once lost the meaning of existence to the world and dispersing your soul into invisible particles of nature, and begging to set back into dark curtains of the night. And then one would adore the sparkling star that shone above, yearning to grasp it. However, one seeks no more and sees no more of it. Becos one's sky is bright again. Embracing the nature to be one with you, may not ask of you to disperse but to be formless.
Frankly speaking, my non-existence for 4 and half months has seemed to be a lifetime absence for some. Losing some things while gaining some things is parts and parcel of life, I should be used to it. But juz abit nudging at me at the thought of some ppl conveniently treat me absent. Too bad. Can't be helped.
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Flight
Dear frens who have ommented on my post and asking abt me, thanks for the concern. :) However, I believe dark clouds will be over soon.
I made a new decision in my academic life, which is to take 1 year Pratical Training. Hence I will be taking my Masters 1 year later than usual. Thus, I will be graduating 2 years later. dreading long years but I hope it will be worthwhile. a flight to new beginning
There's earthquake today, ard 11 plus am. I was scanning stuff and I felt myself shaking gently in rhythmic motion. I thought my scanner scanned so hard that it shook the table which is impossible. Printer will probably do that instead. So anyway I moved away from the table but I continued to shake. I tot something's wrong with me, feeling as though my heart beat so strongly that the throbbing caused my body to shake or to think my body shaking, that is, probably dizziness from my head. I was abit dizzy when I saw my curtain moved but I didnt suspect anything, thinking it is juz simply dizziness. When I saw my fren's nick abt the earthquake, the mystery of shaking was solved. This is my FIRST time to feel an earthquake, which explains why I wouldnt believe it at first and dunno how it is like too.
right, back to work :)
