{"id":484,"date":"2012-03-02T01:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T09:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:36:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.postimg.cc\/pTnSX0xd\/LOGO.jpg?w=740&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:223px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><i>hi, I&#8217;m Najin.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I&#8217;m a pint-sized Illustrative Designer from Vancouver, Canada. I grew up climbing trees, re-reading Anne of Green Gables, and getting lost in our rugged Pacific Northwest landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I enjoy fusing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/illustration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">illustration<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">graphic design<\/a> and I usually muse over&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/illustration\/nature-paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nature<\/a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/illustration\/people-paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">people<\/a>. But hey, I also like a challenge and try to explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/illustration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">everything in between<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My heart beats to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/design\/branding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brand design<\/a> for small businesses and not-for-profit organizations that are meaningful to me. Occasionally, I&#8217;ll also print design for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/design\/event-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">events<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">You can find my artwork speckled around Vancouver on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/design\/print\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prints<\/a> and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/category\/illustration\/murals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In my spare time I like to get lost in nature, read, geek over video games, and tinker with whatever gizmo or tech I have access to. These days, &#8220;spare time&#8221; is rare and I&#8217;m often wrangling my tiny humans someplace around the Tricities.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.postimg.cc\/vH56LGq8\/IMG-0659.jpg?w=740&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:262px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Well that&#8217;s me.<br \/><i>Let&#8217;s exchange some bytes<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/najin.art\/\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;(art)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/muserelle\/\">Instagram<\/a> (sans art)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/13590899-najin\">GoodReads<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/najinca\/\">Facebook<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/misskoreanninja\/videos?view_as=subscriber&amp;shelf_id=4&amp;view=0&amp;sort=dd\">Youtube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hi, I&#8217;m Najin. I&#8217;m a pint-sized Illustrative Designer from Vancouver, Canada. I grew up climbing trees, re-reading Anne of Green Gables, and getting lost in our rugged Pacific Northwest landscape. I enjoy fusing illustration with graphic design and I usually muse over&nbsp;nature&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;people. But hey, I also like a challenge and try to explore everything in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52797,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-484","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3qg3D-7O","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53133,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/484\/revisions\/53133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}