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| name = Jack Yan | image = Jack Yan at SFD Wellington 2010.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1972}} | birth_place = Kowloon, British Hong Kong | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Publisher, designer, businessman | party = Alliance (2008) | salary = | networth = | website = http://jackyan.com/ }} Jack Yan (Chinese: 甄爵恩, Pinyin: Zhēn Jué'ēn; born 1972) is a New Zealand publisher, designer and businessman, who has run several times for the post of Mayor of Wellington. He is best known as the organiser of the Miss Universe New Zealand beauty pageant. Yan created over 100 typeface designs himself for the firm,[1] and inspired other local typeface designers such as Kris Sowersby to pursue careers in that industry. His typefaces include Ætna, a revival of Bembo.[2] In 1997, he founded Lucire,[3] a fashion magazine that made the move from web to print,[4] and serves as its publisher. He also helms a consulting firm,[5] and is a director of the Medinge Group think-tank.[6] Business 2.0[7] and the UK's The Daily Telegraph,[8] he is better known outside New Zealand for this work. 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. In 2007, he became a judge for Miss Universe New Zealand, and currently organises the competition.[9] He ran for mayor of Wellington in 2010,[10] and again in 2013, but was unsuccessful in both elections.[11][12] BackgroundYan was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong,[13] and emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents in 1976.[14] He attended St Mark's Church School (where he was Dux{{what?|date=January 2019}}) and Scots College, and graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with three degrees - two in business and one in law. Aside from English, Yan speaks Cantonese and French.[15] CareerWritingsYan was a contributor to Visual Arts Trends in New York (1999–2001), and The Journal of Brand Management in London (2003–04). Web publications that he has written for include UK-based Fontzone and DZ3. He was a founding contributor to Allaboutbranding.com (from 2002). Additionally, he writes for his own publications, CAP and Lucire. PoliticsIn the 2008 general election Yan stood as a candidate on the Alliance party list,[16] but no candidates for the Alliance were elected.[17] He was a candidate in Wellington's 2010 mayoral election,[18][19] and also stood again in the 2013 elections.[11][20] PavementIn 2007 Yan registered the trademark of the recently-defunct New Zealand magazine Pavement. Yan claimed that the magazine had been "abandoned", saying "If someone throws away something, just like rubbish outside your house, I can legally go and get it". Pavements publisher, still actively trading as "The Pavement Company", oppose the trademark application.[21] Books
References1. ^Martinkus, Angela. 2000, "Type cast", The Age, "Emag" supplement, March. 2. ^Pratzel, Anne-Marie. 1996, "New faces", Publish, August, p. 107 3. ^Vidal, Josie. 2000, "The web that Jack built", The Evening Post, "Flair" supplement, p. 8. 4. ^Simpson, Emily. 2004, "Man with a plan", ProDesign, December 2004 – January 2005, pp. 34–36. 5. ^Fernandez, Juanita. 2005, "Not your average CEO: Jack of all trades", Wellington Today, July–August, pp. 10–11. 6. ^Rydergren, Tobias. 2002, "Go logo! Brand-soldaterna slår tillbaka", Resumé, 22 August, pp. 22–3. 7. ^Mucha, Thomas. 2004, "Marketing the brand 'America'", Business 2.0, online edition, 13 May. 8. ^{{cite news |last=Booth |first=Jenny |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/08/wgerm08.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/06/08/ixworld.html |title=We have ways of making you forget |publisher=The Sunday Telegraph |date=8 June 2003 |accessdate=25 December 2006}} 9. ^{{cite web|last=Keall|first=Chris|title=ASK ME ANYTHING: Jack Yan|url=http://www.nbr.co.nz/ask-jack|publisher=NBR.co.nz|accessdate=24 September 2013}} 10. ^http://www.elections2010.co.nz/2010/elections/wellington-city-mayor 11. ^1 Six-way battle for Wellington mayoralty 3 News NZ. 23 September 2013. 12. ^{{cite news|title=Three more years for Wade-Brown|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-elections-2013/9276358/Three-more-years-for-Wade-Brown|accessdate=13 October 2013|newspaper=Dominion Post|date=12 October 2013|author=Katie Chapman|author2=Tessa Johnstone|author3=Kerrie McBride}} 13. ^Young, Simon. 2007, "Immigration nation", Idealog, March–April, pp. 40–46. 14. ^Paki, Kui. 2004, "Polyeurasian—the new breed New Zealander", Tu Mai, February, pp. 20–2. 15. ^Jacobson, Julie. 2006, "Five minutes with Jack Yan", The Dominion Post, 22 June, p. D3. 16. ^{{cite web | title = Candidate profile: Jack Yan | work = The Alliance | url = http://alliance.org.nz/2008-election/alliance-party-list/list-jack-yan/ | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100925075153/http://www.alliance.org.nz/2008-election/alliance-party-list/list-jack-yan | archivedate = 25 September 2010 | df = dmy-all }} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz/partystatus.html |title=Official Count Results – Overall Status |publisher=New Zealand Ministry of Justice |accessdate=22 January 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209051141/http://2008.electionresults.govt.nz/partystatus.html |archivedate=9 February 2009 }} 18. ^http://jackyanformayor.org/ 19. ^http://yourwellington.org/ 20. ^Scoop.co.nz – Jack Yan announces 2013 mayoral bid 21. ^{{cite news |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/4231741a1860.html |title=Magazine's ex-owner fights for trademark |date=10 October 2007 |work=The Dominion Post |accessdate=6 October 2011}} External links
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