CV by Saint Shwe Yee Win
PERSONAL INFORMATION
SAINT SHWE YEE WIN
25/10/1994
MYANMAR
7 KIM TIAN PLACE, #03-59, 160007 SINGAPORE
SAINTSHWEYEEWIN@RAFFLES-DESIGNER.COM
EDUCATION
RAFFLES DESIGN COLLEGE
DIPLOMA IN JEWELRY DESIGN
2013 – 2016
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MYANMAR
2003-2013
CRANE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
1999-2003
LANGUAGES
ENGLISH
CHINESE
BURMESE
PROJECT PARTICIPATION
BENNY’S GEMS COMPETITION 2014
SINGAPORE JEWELRY & GEM FAIR 2014
ALTE JEWELRY COMPETITION 2015
SINGAPORE JEWELRY & GEM FAIR 2015
WAI GEMS & JEWELRY COMPETITION 2015
ON CHEONG JEWELRY COMPETITON 2016
COMPUTER SKILLS
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
AUTODESK INVENTOR
RHINOCEROS
KEYSHOT 5
REFERENCES
Hector Salazar
51 Merchant Road
Singapore
hectorsalazar@raffles-college.edu.sg
Sandra Fie (Lecturer)
51 Merchant Road
Singapore
sandrafie@raffles-college.edu.sg
Professionalism in Jewelry Design
WHAT IS A JEWELRY DESIGN?
Jewelry is a type of accessories people use to wear on their bodies to enhance their looks. Jewelries from centuries ago were made with bones and wood. Only after metal was found, people start making the jewelries with different types of metal as metal give more stronger and richer looking than other materials. From there, people start designing all types of jewelries to expand the market.
Jewelry design is designed when it is drawn out with pen or pencil on a paper when the designer found their inspiration or design influence that they would like to use in the jewelry. It is not easy to start a design if you have no idea of how you want your jewelry piece to be but once you know, it is much easier to sketch it out and develop from then.
WHAT DOES JEWELRY DESIGNER DO?
Jewelry designers’ job is to come up with different styles and ideas of designs with precious metals, diamonds, gemstones, and beads to create wearable pieces of art. Their not only about sketching and making jewelries, but have know how to hand render the piece that you would like to produce, need to know how to use certain types software to render your jewelry piece, showing mockups before making the real pieces, and so on. But being a jewelry designer does not mean you have to know everything, for example gemology. Gemology and jewelry design are totally from a different category. Gemologists’ job is about studying gemstones and jewelry designers’ job is also about designing jewelry. As simple as that, gemologist does not have to know how to design jewelry and a jewelry designer also does not have to know about gemstones, and instead they work together. To work under jewelry industry, there are many more different types of things you can be specialized in.
Jewelry designers have to interact lots with clients especially when they are looking for one-and-only design so it is important to know how to talk, behave, and treat your clients. Not all clients are nice and patient with you so it is also important to know how to manage and solve problems with your clients as a jewelry designer. Jewelry designers’ job is not easy but interesting. It is also not only about designing but also understanding about professionalism.
PROFESSIONALISM IN JEWELRY DESIGN
Clients and the designers most of the time spend quality time with each other to discuss about the design that the client is interested in. Most of the clients who walk into jewelry stores are wealthy and are above 40 years old where they would like to spend their time buying high-end products and jewelries to enhance them. Clients can be rude, mean, or not patient at all so as a jewelry designer, they have to go through with all different types of them. To be a professional jewelry designer, it is not only about skills, experience and knowledge on designing jewelries but also require the ability of how to communicate, behave, and perform with the clients. It is important to know how to keep the client entertained and happy because only if they are in a good mood, it is easier to discuss with them. Things that jewelry designers have to be aware is to be always on time for consultations with clients, be patient, never talk back or argue, attire should be presentable, be ethic and the quality of your work client expected have to be there. It is important to know how to show the client that you are professional and trustworthy.
Overall, the reason why it is important being a professional is because if you can leave good impressions of yourself to your clients, they will be willing to come back to find you again and that is where you get most of the client, which is part of being professional.
“How do you write a CV?” Talk by Celine Salnot
ABOUT
Celine Salnot, is a fashion consultation firm, from Christian Bassett Singapore who came and gave a talk at our college about how to write a resumes and portfolio in design industry. Her talk mostly refers to fashion design industry but in general, it is also applicable to most of the other design department.
HOW DO YOU WRITE A CV?
Although we have done it once for our internship in our late diploma year before, it is still important to know how it is also applied if we were to find a real job in the future. I find internship and a full-time job really different as I find them taking us easier looking through your CV without much consideration when we applied for internship but as for full-time job, I think they would take it more seriously for your qualifications as the pay is higher and they will be as well as working with the same person for most of the time.
When applying for a job, the most things to put in your CV is to make sure you have a timeline showing what you have been doing for past few years till present including your job title, your working experiences, education, skills, and your interest or hobby. Personal contacting details should be also written in your CV such as your name, address, citizenship, and contact details that show your email, phone number, and can even be your Instagram.
As for freelance, the information does not need many requirements. Your CV can be shortened and can only mainly put your last experiences till current, and specifying your timeline presenting with the place you have worked until then and the year.
HOW ABOUT PORTFOLIO?
On the other hand, portfolio is quite different from CV. Portfolio is a booklet expressing your works and ability inside. You may or may have not done many works for your portfolio but it is better to put only the best works that you have than putting ALL of your works. It is very time consuming to look through every one of it and usually whomever reading your portfolio will only give in few minutes to look through it so it is better to jump into your best works that shows that you are unique from others and standing out rather than adding works that are not very relevant to the job that you are applying for. As a designer, it is also good to put hand drawings in your portfolio together with your works. Celine preferred putting all your own works inside your portfolio instead of finishing by others meaning putting photographs of your works or photographs with models that is taken by you, and not the photographer. This depends the place that you would like to work in but it is preferable if everything inside your portfolio is done by you just because it is your portfolio.
Overall, I find this talk helpful in some ways and since we have done it before, we could add or make some changes, as our internship CV may not be very presentable for our near future jobs.
My Works
JEWELRY PIECES
BATTELIA
The concept was created to represent the challenges of how mothers have to overcome during the process of giving birth their child. The charms signify all the hardships that mothers have to overcome in order to have a child. It ultimately represents their love and determination as a mother.
PARELLEL
These geometric series of rings and the bangle were to show the concept of how construction workers have to go through during the process of building big and tall buildings in order to make us in live in a safe and comfortable place. The inner part of these rings have the rough texture to shows us that with hard work we can overcome all possibilities like turning something raw to brilliant.
NATURA
The sounds of nature have always brought calmness and relaxation to someone’s mind and these pieces are inspired by them. These pieces are made hollow with tiny silvers balls inside to produce pleasant sounds when there is movement.
It can be worn as pendant, ring or earring.
TRANSCENDING ELEGANCE
This two-piece jewelry set is inspired by the quote “Outer beauty pleases the eye but inner beauty pleases the heart.” where outer beauty represent the metal that holds the glass and the glass represent the inner beauty where the design can be seen through the glass.
YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
“Yesterday is history, today is a gift, and tomorrow is a mystery”
Yesterday is past where we have made all the mistakes, and today is where we learn from our mistakes to make things better and tomorrow is our future which we all are making it to be as perfect as we can. This series of rings shows that nothing is immediately perfect. We learn and improve as we progress through life.
HERITAGE
This jewelry set is based on burmese traditional wood carving design made to be worn with burmese traditional clothes or formal dresses. Part of the necklace can be taken out to be worn as a brooch as the design of the dresses may vary. Finally, this jewelry set also acts as a way to maintain and promote burmese culture as tradition is beyond price.
SOFTWARE RENDERINGS
PROJECT PARTICIPATION
Professionalism Seminar by Harveen Kaur
HOW TO BE A PROFESSIONAL?
Few weeks ago, I attended a seminar about ‘How to be a professional?’ by Harveen Kaur. She explained about non-verbal languages and the things we should be aware of to be professional at your workplace or at presentations. Being professional is one of the most important aspects of being successful at your job. Professionalism can lead your career to more opportunities such as a raise or a bonus. It is very important to know how to present yourself to communicate with your co-workers and interact with others at work.
Then how to be professional? There are six elements in nonverbal language, which are professional appearance, facial expression, eye contact, posture, gestures, and movement. Proper grooming and professional appearance can gain positive impression and as well as respect in the workplace. Everyday you should reach to work on time, dressed professionally according to the expected attire at your workplace. Clothing that are too right or too revealing should be avoided, as it may not be very appropriate for your workplace. It is also not advisable to wear jeans to work only if the workplace accepts business casual dress code, which goes the same way for presentations. Presentations are to present your work, not yourself so it is fundamental to dress smart to present professionally.
Facial expressions are main part of presentations. It takes a very important part of the communication. Facial expressions include smiling, frowning, eye rolling, making eye contact, and many more. But because we all came from different backgrounds, we understand facial expression differently. We can misunderstand the intent behind different cues so during your presentation, it is important to know how to express the topic that you are talking about.
Making eye contact also plays an important role of your presentation. When presenting, you are talking to the audience, presenting your ideas to them so keeping eye contacts to the audience shows your confidence about presenting your work. Eyes cannot be only focused onto one person nor focused to the projector. It has to be moving around since you are presenting not only to one person but to all.
Keeping the right posture shows the professionalism of you. Standing straight and moving around the audience can be more presentable than leaning on the table or wall talking. Gestures can also be added to help audience understand more about your presentation. Instead of just standing straight and talking, it is preferable to have a little movement around yourself to keep the audience more attentive. Too much is not necessary, and can lead one to annoyance.
Overall, on my perspective, out of all the non-verbal languages, making eye contacts and proper grooming is the most important thing for presentations because everyone has their own style of presenting which some use more of their gestures to express their ideas and some move around to present their ideas. As for me, making eye contacts are important because if one keep presenting looking at the screen, there is a higher chance for audiences to loose their interest in the presentation. For proper grooming, if one wear something too revealing or not very convenient for the presentation, the outfit will be quite distracting so I find it very important for one to consider how to dress up for presentations. Although everyone may have their own ways and ideas of how to present, as a college student, I find making eye contacts and having a proper attire is the most important out of all the non-verbal languages.
Doing a presentation is neither easy nor hard. It needs time to practice to get it right. Too much is not good and too little is not preferable either. Not all the six elements in nonverbal language have to be perfect but it is good to have it all in your mind during the presentation.
Review about Tube Setting video by Nancy Hamilton
Tube Setting Tutorial
by Nancy Hamilton
What is stone setting?
Stone setting is to securely set or attach gemstones into the jewelry. There are many ways of doing the settings for each technique. One of the stone setting techniques that I like is called tube setting. I find the setting relatively easy and fun. This kind of setting is mostly used for either big or bulky jewelries as it takes quite a space depending on the size of the stone you use.
The most important thing about making a tube setting is to master in keeping the setting bur perpendicular to the tubing walls so that the table of the stone can remains level. When inserting the stone, the stone have to go in the tube until the girdle cannot be seen. If the girdle is still visible, using setting bur, it has to be pushed more into the tube. The girdle of the stone cannot be raised up or you will have a hard time setting the stone as the side of the tube has to be pushed toward the stone using plier so that the stone would not drop out. So it is important to know how much the stone have to be pushed into to set the stone securely and firmly.
To learn more about tube setting, you can check this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrYNMDsvBGU
Review about the video
I find this video really helpful for people who started learning about stone settings. Nancy Hamilton is a really good jewelry designer. She really gives out all the great jewelry tips and techniques in Youtube. She can explain from measuring, showing you the different tools, until the piece was made and polished. She treasures all the comments that she receives and responds to them as much possible as she can. From her video, you can find out all the tools that you have to use and how they should be used. I think watching this video is a great help because she explains thoroughly as she was doing it, which makes it easier for us to follow.
The video was taken with a good quality so it is clearer for viewers to watch, which is actually important because if it is blurry, it will be hard to keep on track of what she was doing. She shows closely on what she is doing so it really shows the effort that she put on the video. If you were to learn more about jewelry techniques, I would recommend checking out her videos, as her videos on Youtube were always where I learn most of the things.
There are different ways of doing a tube setting. Although the result may look the same, everyone did it in their own style which the way I did for tube setting and the way Nancy did was also different.
Compare to the tube setting I have done in college, i did it in a much simpler way. I only use the diamond bur and a plier to set the stone in the tube. It may look easy and simple but it takes time and patience as the stone have to sit well in the tube. The difficulties I have found during the process is to have the stone sit fit tight in the tube. I use flat plier to push the metal to cover the side of the stone so that the stone would not fall out but as I was pushing, the stone would keep moving into different directions, either it is flipped to the another side or keep dropping to the floor. I find it very time consuming but I like the way how the setting looks so I guess all I need is more practice.
As for Nancy, she have these certain tools to hold the tube firmly so that she can drill in with diamond bur but for my side, I actually cut the tube longer so that i can hold onto it when I use the diamond bur and only after I set the stone, I cut the tube as short as I want. So there were some slight differences between how me and Nancy did but in the end, the result is almost the same so it depends on how you want it to be done because everyone has their own way of doing it.
Review on Singapore Art Museum
S.A.M
Singapore Art Museum
Singapore Art Museum is focused on international contemporary art practices that specialize in Singapore and Southeast Asia. It was opened since 1996 as the first art museum in Singapore. Presently also known as SAM, a contemporary art museum.
SAM covers a diversity of art trends and contemporary art that is welcomed for all ages. It collects the most important contemporary artworks with a growing component in international contemporary art.
Review on the exhibition visit
Throughout SAM exhibition visit, I see the theme of the exhibition is to wonder around to find out different types of contemporary works by amazing people as you explore. The whole exhibition is covered with many small walls and rooms where every room is presented with amazing art works and videotapes. I see the whole building of the exhibition is like a maze. There are different entrances for different categories of art.
Out of all the amazing works, there is one entrance that I find it quite astonishing. There are thousands of photos installed in a grid covering the walls of an entire gallery. They are photographs of common public spaces that anyone can access together with human figures, which filled the room with uncanny atmosphere. Moreover, the photographs were marked as calendars with dates from near future like 2020-2096. I find this work very imaginative and uncommon which is the main reason of why I like this room.
Calenders with date from near future 2020-2096
Another room that interests me is the room that collects all the ending page of different books where it is written ‘The End’. As I enter the room, all the lights were dimed, with only different ending pages were spotlighted on the shelf. I think more than a hundreds of them were exhibited which were framed, all aligned in a row. I find this type of creative work quite contemporaneous and left me amazed.
‘The End’ page of different books.
In this room, one side of the wall was covered with electrical cords and light bulbs that is named lumination fall wall weave. It was inspired by his mother’s sewing practice and the communal activity of net making. The electrical cords were literally woven through the wall in repeated loops and the domestic light blubs were hanged from their ends in a long row hovering just above the gallery floor. It really attracts the eyes as you pass by because from far away, the electrical cords seems like a bundle of gigantic short hair sticking on the wall. I see this work very visionary with interesting inspirations.
Overall, I find this exhibition very interesting. Every room you enter can make you either surprised or left questioning yourself. If you have not been there, I recommend you to go see it for yourself because from there, I have learned many different ideas with unusual types of perspective.
Book Reveiw on Caratell Jewelry Collection Book
Caratell Jewelry Collection
ISBN: 9786162363917
Caratell is a fine jewelry boutique that was first established in 2004 by Michael Koh and his wife, Achillea, both award winning jewelry designers. Mr. Michael Koh, founder of Caratell, holds a B.A Degree in Jewelry Design from RMIT and has won numerous design awards. But not only on jewelry design, he also has passion on sculpture and painting, which he had won several awards for both in various international competitions. His passion is to transform contemporary art into functional jewelry.
Michael often travels to places where he can find rare and unusual precious gemstones for coveted collectors and jewelry connoisseurs.
For more information about Caratell, you can check at http://www.caratell.com
REVIEW ON THE BOOK
Caratell jewelry is mostly concentrated on commercial jewelry, which is divided into many different sections in the book for different gemstones used in the jewelry. Every page has a short description about what materials were been used in the jewelry underneath the image. Most are them are made with 18k gold with different types of colored gemstones and pearls.
Because it is a jewelry collection book, it does not have a content page but instead, every section have a soft title page that tell us what the section is going to show. At the back of the book, shows rough information about every type of gemstones and some rare gems that changes color through day and night. I think this book give me a lot of knowledge although provided information about gemstones was rough, at any rate I am now familiar with the stones. Caratell jewelry pieces are also quite commercial, which I think is useful for my future career as I can now see what type of design are now on trend and what is currently in the market. I can also use them as a reference or inspiration to help my projects and designs. I find this book every elegant, useful and inspiring.
Pearls are designed very elegantly with different types of colorful gemstones which I think is very eye catching and attractive. I have not seen pearls with much design using colored gemstones before so I find this design very creative and nicely made.
The emphasis of the necklace is there and I find it very classy. If it is worn together with an evening gown, I believe it will be very attractive and it may even look like it is part of the dress as it is made quite big and beautifully. I think it is the simple touch that makes the jewelry piece elegant.
Review on Nobel Prize Exhibition at Marina Bay Sands
Nobel Prize: Ideas Changing the World
Art Science Museum, Marina Bay Sands
Few days ago, I visited The Nobel Prize, one of the world’s most recognized awards presenting the intersection of art, science, technology and culture which is held at Art Science Museum, Marina Bay Sands. Most exhibitions I have been are mostly focused on fine arts but for this exhibition, they are mostly focused on physics, chemistry, physiology, literature, peace and economic sciences.
The theme of the exhibition is to make the audience wonder and feel curious enough to try out the objects, as all the objects that are displayed can be touched and are able to have a closer look. I find all of them quite futuristic and amazing. Out of them one thing that interest me the most is the shoe that is attached with a circuit board. I am not sure what the benefit is for the shoe and seems not very practical as the circuit board is just attached to the side of the shoe. But in a way, I am quite curious of how it can be used, as there is no description written for it.
Sneaker with circuit board attached on the side of the shoe.
On the other hand, for the old technologies that were been displayed, were all placed in a display stand where short descriptions are also written below. The description indicates who the founder was and when it has been made. Short quotes from famous people were also projected on different part of the walls, which were very meaningful and true. The picture attached below is my favourite.
Alfred Nobel is a Swedish chemist, engineer, and an armaments manufacturer. He was the inventor of dynamite where he was also awarded John Fritz Metal. I like this quote because as a designer, thousands of ideas can get into your head but when once draw it out, you will start to see if the object is really practical or if it is possible to make. Sometimes, the design can be really nice but once the techniques have to come in, the design may have to be changed or reconsidered. So it is not easy to produce an object exactly the same as your idea. Sometimes even if the idea you have satisfy you, you will still have to meet the market, what most people would prefer to use or buy. That is why even if you have various ideas, if only one turns out to be good, that is very satisfying.
Overall, during my tour in the exhibition, I have learned many new things, which is really unexpected and I really enjoy it. If there are more exhibitions about technologies in Singapore, I would love to attend more exhibitions like this to learn more new things.
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