Jack Yan Explained

Jack Yan
Birth Place:Kowloon, British Hong Kong
Occupation:Publisher, designer, businessman
Party:Alliance (2008)
Website:https://jackyan.com/

Jack Yan (; 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 typeface designs himself for his firm, Jack Yan & Associates[10] and was New Zealand's first digital typeface designer.[11] He encouraged other local typeface designers such as Kris Sowersby to pursue careers in that industry. His typefaces include Ætna, a revival of Bembo.[12]

He also helms a consulting firm,[13] and is co-chair of the Medinge Group think-tank.[14]

In 1997, he founded Lucire,[15] a 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 (2003–11),[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 TV One's 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, and stood again in the 2013 elections.[32]

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wellington City Mayor » www.elections2010.co.nz . 31 August 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100903121651/http://elections2010.co.nz/2010/elections/wellington-city-mayor . 3 September 2010 . dead .
  2. Web site: Six-way battle for Wellington mayoralty . 3 News NZ . 2013-09-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160422213037/http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/sixway-battle-for-wellington-mayoralty-2013092308 . 2016-04-22 . dead.
  3. News: Three more years for Wade-Brown. 13 October 2013. Dominion Post. 12 October 2013. Katie Chapman. Tessa Johnstone. Kerrie McBride.
  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. News: Michele Hewitson Interview: Jack Yan. 9 July 2021. The New Zealand Herald. 30 August 2013. Hewitson, Michele.
  7. Web site: Jack Yan, Executive, Scots Collegians. Scots College . 2022-09-13.
  8. Jacobson, Julie. 2006, "Five minutes with Jack Yan", The Dominion Post, 22 June, p. D3.
  9. Web site: Watch: Cantonese, with publisher and typeface designer Jack Yan. 2022-12-30. Te Papa Tongarewa. 2021-10-26.
  10. Martinkus, Angela. 2000, "Type cast", The Age, "Emag" supplement, March.
  11. Web site: Interview with Jack Yan on global sustainable fashion . Giardina . Sharon . 2022-05-30 . Komoneed . 2022-09-11.
  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. News: Car cyclopædia Autocade hits five million page views . 26 October 2014 . Oversteer . 15 August 2022.
  18. News: Lucire gets a sister print title: Autocade launches a lavish Yearbook . 20 December 2023 . 22 March 2024.
  19. Web site: Editors and contributors . Visual Arts Trends . dead . 2001-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20010111122700/http://www.visualartstrends.com/Ea/Ea1.html . 2022-09-14.
  20. Web site: 2014-07-14 . Journal of Brand Management - Abstract of article: Corporate responsibility and the brands of tomorrow . 2022-03-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714165358/http://www.palgrave-journals.com/bm/journal/v10/n4/abs/2540125a.html . 14 July 2014 . dead.
  21. Web site: Jack Yan . Desktop . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110202003823/http://www.desktopmag.com.au/author/jackyan . 2011-02-02 . 2022-09-14.
  22. Web site: Fontzone . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20000302001616/http://ww2.fontzone.com/zine . 2000-03-02 . 2024-03-22.
  23. Web site: Allaboutbranding.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20020123004339/http://allaboutbranding.com:80/ . 2002-01-23 . 2022-09-14.
  24. Web site: Winners 2023 . 2023-05-16 . Business Book Awards . 2023-05-31.
  25. Web site: Keall . Chris . Ask me anything: Jack Yan . National Business Review . dead . 2022-09-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130920112226/http://www.nbr.co.nz/stayconnected?return=145992 . 2013-09-20.
  26. Web site: The Panel with Jennie Morten and Jack Yan. Radio New Zealand . 2020-08-25. 2022-09-13.
  27. News: 'Make-or-break' season . Botelho . Greg . 2002-12-02 . CNN . 2022-10-10.
  28. News: Mucha . Thomas . 2004-05-13 . Marketing the brand 'America'. Business 2.0.
  29. News: Booth . Jenny . 2003-06-08 . We have ways of making you forget . The Sunday Telegraph.
  30. Web site: Candidate profile: Jack Yan . The Alliance . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100925075153/http://www.alliance.org.nz/2008-election/alliance-party-list/list-jack-yan . 25 September 2010 . dmy-all .
  31. Web site: Official Count Results – Overall Status . . 22 January 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090209051141/http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz/partystatus.html . 9 February 2009 .
  32. Web site: Jack Yan announces 2013 mayoral bid | Scoop News. www.scoop.co.nz.

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