Jack Yan

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Jack Yan
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Kowloon, British Hong Kong
Occupation(s)Publisher, designer, businessman
Political partyAlliance (2008)
Websitehttps://jackyan.com/

Jack Yan (Chinese: 甄爵恩; pinyin: Zhēn Jué'ēn; born 1972) is a New Zealand publisher, designer and businessman. He is best known as the founder and publisher of Lucire.

He ran for mayor of Wellington in 2010,[1] and again in 2013, but was unsuccessful in both elections.[2][3]

Background

Yan was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong,[4] and emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents in 1976.[5] He attended St Mark's Church School (where he was Dux[6]) and Scots College,[7] and graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with three degrees – two in business and one in law.

Aside from English, Yan speaks Cantonese, French,[8] and Taishanese.[9]

Career

Business ventures

Beginning in the 1980s, Yan created over 100

Kris Sowersby to pursue careers in that industry. His typefaces include Ætna, a revival of Bembo.[12]

He also helms a consulting firm,

think-tank.[14]

In 1997, he founded

fashion magazine that added print editions after starting on the web,[16]
and serves as its publisher.

From 2007 to 2012, he was a judge for Miss Universe New Zealand, and became a director of the licensee firm that took over in 2013.

In 2008, he founded the online car encyclopedia Autocade,[17] which he then extended into a print version in 2023.[18]

Writings and media

Yan was a contributor to Visual Arts Trends in New York (1999–2001),[19] The Journal of Brand Management in London (2003–04),[20] and Desktop magazine in Australia (1996–2010).[21]

Web publications that he has written for include UK-based Fontzone[22] and DZ3. He was a founding contributor to Allaboutbranding.com (from 2002).[23] Additionally, he writes for his own publications, CAP and Lucire.

He contributed chapters to Beyond Branding (2003) and Brands with a Conscience (2016), wrote Typography and Branding (2004), and ghost-wrote Greek designer Panos Papadopoulos's autobiography, Panos: My Life, My Odyssey (2022), for which they won a Highly Commended at the Business Book Awards 2023.[24]

From 3 March 2006, he began a weekly spot on

Good Morning, discussing men's issues, but resigned from that role in 2007.[25]

In 2020, he started as a regular panellist on Radio New Zealand's The Panel.[26]

He is better known outside New Zealand for his work; he has been interviewed by CNN,[27] Business 2.0[28] and the UK's The Daily Telegraph.[29]

Politics

In the 2008 general election Yan stood as a candidate on the Alliance party list,[30] but no candidates for the Alliance were elected.[31] He was a candidate in Wellington's 2010 mayoral election,[1] and stood again in the 2013 elections.[2][32]

Books

References

  1. ^ a b "Wellington City Mayor » www.elections2010.co.nz". Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Six-way battle for Wellington mayoralty". 3 News NZ. 23 September 2013. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016.
  3. ^ Katie Chapman; Tessa Johnstone; Kerrie McBride (12 October 2013). "Three more years for Wade-Brown". Dominion Post. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
  4. ^ Young, Simon. 2007, "Immigration nation", Idealog, March–April, pp. 40–46.
  5. ^ Paki, Kui. 2004, "Polyeurasian—the new breed New Zealander", Tu Mai, February, pp. 20–2.
  6. ^ Hewitson, Michele (30 August 2013). "Michele Hewitson Interview: Jack Yan". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Jack Yan, Executive, Scots Collegians". Scots College. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  8. The Dominion Post
    , 22 June, p. D3.
  9. ^ "Watch: Cantonese, with publisher and typeface designer Jack Yan". Te Papa Tongarewa. 26 October 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  10. ^ Martinkus, Angela. 2000, "Type cast", The Age, "Emag" supplement, March.
  11. ^ a b Giardina, Sharon (30 May 2022). "Interview with Jack Yan on global sustainable fashion". Komoneed. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  12. ^ Pratzel, Anne-Marie. 1996, "New faces", Publish, August, p. 107
  13. ^ Fernandez, Juanita. 2005, "Not your average CEO: Jack of all trades", Wellington Today, July–August, pp. 10–11.
  14. ^ Rydergren, Tobias. 2002, "Go logo! Brand-soldaterna slår tillbaka", Resumé, 22 August, pp. 22–3.
  15. ^ Vidal, Josie. 2000, "The web that Jack built", The Evening Post, "Flair" supplement, p. 8.
  16. ^ Simpson, Emily. 2004, "Man with a plan", ProDesign, December 2004 – January 2005, pp. 34–36.
  17. ^ "Car cyclopædia Autocade hits five million page views". Oversteer. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  18. ^ "Lucire gets a sister print title: Autocade launches a lavish Yearbook". 20 December 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  19. ^ "Editors and contributors". Visual Arts Trends. Archived from the original on 11 January 2001. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  20. ^ "Journal of Brand Management - Abstract of article: Corporate responsibility and the brands of tomorrow". 14 July 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  21. ^ "Jack Yan". Desktop. Archived from the original on 2 February 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  22. ^ "Fontzone". Archived from the original on 2 March 2000. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  23. ^ "Allaboutbranding.com". Archived from the original on 23 January 2002. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  24. ^ "Winners 2023". Business Book Awards. 16 May 2023. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  25. ^ Keall, Chris. "Ask me anything: Jack Yan". National Business Review. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
  26. ^ "The Panel with Jennie Morten and Jack Yan". Radio New Zealand. 25 August 2020. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  27. ^ Botelho, Greg (2 December 2002). "'Make-or-break' season". CNN. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  28. ^ Mucha, Thomas (13 May 2004). "Marketing the brand 'America'". Business 2.0.
  29. ^ Booth, Jenny (8 June 2003). "We have ways of making you forget". The Sunday Telegraph.
  30. ^ "Candidate profile: Jack Yan". The Alliance. Archived from the original on 25 September 2010.
  31. New Zealand Ministry of Justice. Archived from the original
    on 9 February 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
  32. ^ "Jack Yan announces 2013 mayoral bid | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz.

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