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Jack Yan (Chinese: 甄爵恩, Pinyin: Zhēn Jué'ēn) is a New Zealand publisher, designer and businessman, born 1972 in Kowloon, Hong Kong.〔Young, Simon. 2007, "Immigration nation", ''Idealog'', March–April, pp. 40–46.〕 Yan emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand with his parents in 1976. Yan created over 100 typeface designs himself for the firm,〔Martinkus, Angela. 2000, "Type cast", ''The Age'', "Emag" supplement, March.〕 and inspired other local typeface designers such as Kris Sowersby to pursue careers in that industry. His typefaces include Ætna, a revival of Bembo.〔Pratzel, Anne-Marie. 1996, "New faces", ''Publish'', August, p. 107〕 In 1997, he founded ''Lucire'',〔Vidal, Josie. 2000, "The web that Jack built", ''The Evening Post'', "Flair" supplement, p. 8.〕 a fashion magazine that made the move from web to print,〔Simpson, Emily. 2004, "Man with a plan", ''ProDesign'', December 2004 – January 2005, pp. 34–36.〕 and serves as its publisher. He also helms a consulting firm,〔Fernandez, Juanita. 2005, "Not your average CEO: Jack of all trades", ''Wellington Today'', July–August, pp. 10–11.〕 and is a director of the Medinge Group think-tank.〔Rydergren, Tobias. 2002, "Go logo! Brand-soldaterna slår tillbaka", ''Resumé'', 22 August, pp. 22–3.〕 ''Business 2.0''〔Mucha, Thomas. 2004, "Marketing the brand 'America'", ''Business 2.0'', online edition, 13 May.〕 and the UK's ''The Daily Telegraph'', 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. He ran for mayor of Wellington in 2010,〔http://www.elections2010.co.nz/2010/elections/wellington-city-mayor〕 and again in 2013, but was unsuccessful in both elections.〔(Six-way battle for Wellington mayoralty ) 3 News NZ. 23 September 2013.〕 ==Background== Jack Yan emigrated to Wellington, New Zealand with his parents in 1976.〔Paki, Kui. 2004, "Polyeurasian—the new breed New Zealander", ''Tu Mai'', February, pp. 20–2.〕 He attended St Mark's Church School (where he was Dux) and Scots College, and graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with two business and one law degrees. Aside from English, Yan speaks Cantonese and French.〔Jacobson, Julie. 2006, "Five minutes with Jack Yan", ''The Dominion Post'', 22 June, p. D3.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Yan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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