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Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Jack Yan (Template:Zh; 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,<ref name="2010elect">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and again in 2013, but was unsuccessful in both elections.<ref name=":18">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

BackgroundEdit

Yan was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong,<ref>Young, Simon. 2007, "Immigration nation", Idealog, March–April, pp. 40–46.</ref> and emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents in 1976.<ref>Paki, Kui. 2004, "Polyeurasian—the new breed New Zealander", Tu Mai, February, pp. 20–2.</ref> He attended St Mark's Church School (where he was Dux<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>) and Scots College,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with three degrees – two in business and one in law.

Aside from English, Yan speaks Cantonese, French,<ref>Jacobson, Julie. 2006, "Five minutes with Jack Yan", The Dominion Post, 22 June, p. D3.</ref> and Taishanese.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

CareerEdit

Business venturesEdit

Beginning in the 1980s, Yan created over 100 typeface designs himself for his firm, Jack Yan & Associates<ref>Martinkus, Angela. 2000, "Type cast", The Age, "Emag" supplement, March.</ref> and was New Zealand's first digital typeface designer.<ref name="Komoneed">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He encouraged other local typeface designers such as Kris Sowersby to pursue careers in that industry. His typefaces include Ætna, a revival of Bembo.<ref>Pratzel, Anne-Marie. 1996, "New faces", Publish, August, p. 107</ref>

He also helms a consulting firm,<ref>Fernandez, Juanita. 2005, "Not your average CEO: Jack of all trades", Wellington Today, July–August, pp. 10–11.</ref> and is co-chair of the Medinge Group think-tank.<ref>Rydergren, Tobias. 2002, "Go logo! Brand-soldaterna slår tillbaka", Resumé, 22 August, pp. 22–3.</ref>

In 1997, he founded Lucire,<ref>Vidal, Josie. 2000, "The web that Jack built", The Evening Post, "Flair" supplement, p. 8.</ref><ref name="Komoneed" /> a fashion magazine that added print editions after starting on the web,<ref>Simpson, Emily. 2004, "Man with a plan", ProDesign, December 2004 – January 2005, pp. 34–36.</ref> 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,<ref> Template:Cite news</ref> which he then extended into a print version in 2023.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Writings and mediaEdit

Yan was a contributor to Visual Arts Trends in New York (1999–2001),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Journal of Brand Management in London (2003–11),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Desktop magazine in Australia (1996–2010).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Web publications that he has written for include UK-based Fontzone<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and DZ3. He was a founding contributor to Allaboutbranding.com (from 2002).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He followed that up with the biographical Lilla boken om Panos: historien om den ikoniska badmodedesignern (2024) in Sweden.

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2020, he started as a regular panellist on Radio New Zealand's The Panel.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

He is better known outside New Zealand for his work; he has been interviewed by CNN,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Business 2.0<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and the UK's The Daily Telegraph.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

PoliticsEdit

In the 2008 general election Yan stood as a candidate on the Alliance party list,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but no candidates for the Alliance were elected.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was a candidate in Wellington's 2010 mayoral election,<ref name="2010elect" /> and stood again in the 2013 elections.<ref name=":18" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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