Posts from — July 2013

Wellington, New Zealand, July 25 (JY&A Media) Lucire publisher Jack Yan is running for Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand, and in typical fashion, he’s called upon friends and colleagues to hold an event that’ll please fashionistas.
   The event, which benefited his mayoral campaign as well as cancer charity CanTeen, saw Lucire fashion editor Sopheak Seng and Arcana Imperii fashion producer James Butters produce an installation at Soi, a scenic restaurant at Greta Pt, Wellington.
   Guests were invited to get their photographs taken with the models, who were represented by Kirsty Bunny Management and wearing spring–summer 2013–14 designs from Falvé, Noa Noa, and Lemonade on the Lawn. There were ‘Back Jack for Mayor of Wellington’ and ‘Jack Yan’ signs, with the producers planning on the photographs to go viral.
   Wellington make-up and hair studio Dollybird provided touch-ups for anyone needing them before they had their photographs taken.
   Mr Yan, who founded Lucire in 1997 as New Zealand’s first online commercial fashion magazine, and who instigated its later print edition, is pushing his business and creative credentials as part of his political campaign.
   On the night he also emphasized his experience in international business, and says that a 21st-century mayor must be someone who can work across borders, to create city-to-city relationships.
   ‘We’re part of the global economy, and the global economy is driven today by the largest 40 cities in the world, the C40,’ he said. ‘If we need a mayor in 2013 and beyond who will be able to bridge cultures and be an advocate for Wellington, then I believe I am that man. When you speak more languages than all your rivals put together, it’s a start.’
   Lucire will continue with Mr Yan as publisher if he is elected mayor, with a small change in its support staff.
   Since April he had collected endorsements locally and internationally, including from former three-term mayor Sir Michael Fowler, Xero co-founder Hamish Edwards, eco-model Summer Rayne Oakes and jeweller Claudia Jaffe.
   In 2010, Mr Yan’s first mayoral bid saw him net 12 per cent of the vote, well above any poll that was published leading up to the election.
   Soi served canapés, while sponsors Invivo Wines, Perrier and Zumwohl served drinks.
   A live auction helmed by Grant Cederwall of Tommy’s topped the evening off, with items sponsored by Spicy Thai Design, Miniscus, Fashion Marketing Ltd., Soi, Ultra Shoes, Tory & KO., Go to Martinborough, The Cattlestop Martinborough Retreat, Voon, Stalex, Beaute Rituelle, Inspia Creative, and Forever Young Hairdressing.
   Jennifer Hamilton performed live music, while Tanya Carr-Smith MCed the night.
Note to editors
This release may be viewed online at http://jyanet.com/info/2013/07/when-a-fashion-magazine-publisher-runs-for-mayor-the-events-are-a-little-different/.
Images
Photographs by Alissa Corbett can be downloaded from this Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8cz9kubls66xz0z/M9nLW-eBvV (and should be credited to her).
   They also appear at Jack Yan’s campaign page at: http://facebook.com/jackyan.ourcentury.

Publicity shot for Jack Yan’s mayoral campaign (2013)
http://jackyan.com
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Photographed by Mikhail Ruzhanskiy

Back Jack 2013 mayoral fund-raiser at Soi: Jack Yan with models from Kirsty Bunny Management (2013)
www.jackyan.com
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Photographed by Alissa Corbett

Back Jack 2013 mayoral fund-raiser at Soi: Jack Yan with Rhonda Grant and Pamela Baron-Archer (2013)
www.jackyan.com
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Photographed by Alissa Corbett

Back Jack 2013 mayoral fund-raiser at Soi: Jack Yan with guests (2013)
www.jackyan.com
JPEG, 4·69 Mbyte
Photographed by Alissa Corbett
Additional images may be downloaded from http://jyanet.com/press/photo.htm.
About Jack Yan
Jack Yan founded Jack Yan & Associates (http://jya.net), one of the world’s first virtual firms, in 1987, operating internationally. Among his company’s interests are business consulting, imaging, software and media, including the fashion magazine brand Lucire. He writes on topics, ranging from branding and business responsibility to fashion and typography, in numerous publications and journals worldwide and is a regular international speaker. He serves on the editorial board for The Journal of Brand Management. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, including Beyond Branding, Typography and Branding and, most recently, Nation Branding: Country Concepts and Cases. His personal site is at jackyan.com. He is a director of the Medinge Group (http://medinge.org), a think-tank in Sweden devoted to cutting-edge branding. He was one of the parties behind the successful bid for Miss Sweden in 2003 for Panos Emporio, and is general counsel of the Miss New Zealand Consortium, the New Zealand licensee for Miss Universe. Since 2006, he has been a mentor with Business Mentors New Zealand. In 2013, he announced his second bid for the mayoralty in Wellington, New Zealand, after netting 12 per cent of the vote on his first attempt.
Contacts
Jack Yan
T 64 4 387-3213
E jack.yan@jyanet.com
Hamish McConnochie
Campaign Media Manager
C 64 27 772-4391
E hamish@jackyanformayor.org
Leana Keen
Associate Editor, London
Lucire
E leana.keen@lucire.com
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Wellington, July 25 (JY&A Media) Mayoral candidate Jack Yan’s fund-raiser at Soi last week brought together many Wellingtonians in a high-fashion setting, including double Olympian Dick Joyce, former CentrePort chairman Nigel Gould, online publishing pioneer and author Richard MacManus, jewellery designer Victoria Taylor, city councillors and one council candidate.
   The event, which donated 10 per cent of its proceeds to CanTeen, was a showcase of Mr Yan’s ideas of unity and creativity.
   Lucire fashion editor Sopheak Seng and Arcana Imperii fashion producer James Butters coordinated a fashion show where guests could get photographs taken with models who were showcasing the latest fashion, while make-up and hair specialists Dollybird ran an on-location suite for those who wanted touch-ups during the evening. Models were provided by Kirsty Bunny Management. Alissa Corbett served as the official photographer on the night.
   Jennifer Hamilton performed live music, while Tanya Carr-Smith MCed the night.
   Soi served canapés, while sponsors Invivo Wines, Perrier and Zumwohl served drinks.
   A live auction helmed by Grant Cederwall of Tommy’s topped the evening off, with items sponsored by Spicy Thai Design, Miniscus, Fashion Marketing Ltd., Soi, Ultra Shoes, Tory & KO., Go to Martinborough, The Cattlestop Martinborough Retreat, Voon, Stalex, Beaute Rituelle, Inspia Creative, and Forever Young Hairdressing.
   CanTeen member Lucy Coombes gave a speech on being a bereaved sibling, while Mr Yan spoke of his passion for Wellington, how he expected to grow the city’s business sector, and his history in Wellington.
   He noted that at the time he was the only candidate who was Wellington-bred with his education and his businesses all having taken place in the city.
   His manifesto, he said, had been there since April for critique, because he felt it was important to be transparent with the people of Wellington.
   Since April he had collected endorsements locally and internationally, including from former three-term Wellington mayor Sir Michael Fowler, Xero co-founder Hamish Edwards, environmental activist and author Summer Rayne Oakes, and jeweller Claudia Jaffe. Surprisingly, an English television character, Roland Rat, has also endorsed Mr Yan via Twitter, much to the delight of some British expatriates.
Note to editors
This release may be viewed online at http://jyanet.com/info/2013/07/jack-yans-mayoral-campaign-function-brings-together-wellingtonians-of-all-stripes/.
Images
Photographs by Alissa Corbett can be downloaded from this Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8cz9kubls66xz0z/M9nLW-eBvV (and should be credited to her).
   They also appear at Jack Yan’s campaign page at: http://facebook.com/jackyan.ourcentury.

Publicity shot for Jack Yan’s mayoral campaign (2013)
http://jackyan.com
JPEG, 2·83 Mbyte
Photographed by Mikhail Ruzhanskiy

Back Jack 2013 mayoral fund-raiser at Soi: Jack Yan with models from Kirsty Bunny Management (2013)
www.jackyan.com
JPEG, 7·43 Mbyte
Photographed by Alissa Corbett

Back Jack 2013 mayoral fund-raiser at Soi: Jack Yan with Rhonda Grant and Pamela Baron-Archer (2013)
www.jackyan.com
JPEG, 8·69 Mbyte
Photographed by Alissa Corbett

Back Jack 2013 mayoral fund-raiser at Soi: Jack Yan with guests (2013)
www.jackyan.com
JPEG, 4·69 Mbyte
Photographed by Alissa Corbett
Additional images may be downloaded from http://jyanet.com/press/photo.htm.
About Jack Yan
Jack Yan founded Jack Yan & Associates (http://jya.net), one of the world’s first virtual firms, in 1987, operating internationally. Among his company’s interests are business consulting, imaging, software and media, including the fashion magazine brand Lucire. He writes on topics, ranging from branding and business responsibility to fashion and typography, in numerous publications and journals worldwide and is a regular international speaker. He serves on the editorial board for The Journal of Brand Management. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, including Beyond Branding, Typography and Branding and, most recently, Nation Branding: Country Concepts and Cases. His personal site is at jackyan.com. He is a director of the Medinge Group (http://medinge.org), a think-tank in Sweden devoted to cutting-edge branding. He was one of the parties behind the successful bid for Miss Sweden in 2003 for Panos Emporio, and is general counsel of the Miss New Zealand Consortium, the New Zealand licensee for Miss Universe. Since 2006, he has been a mentor with Business Mentors New Zealand. In 2013, he announced his second bid for the mayoralty in Wellington, New Zealand, after netting 12 per cent of the vote on his first attempt.
Contacts
Jack Yan
T 64 4 387-3213
E jack.yan@jyanet.com
Hamish McConnochie
Campaign Media Manager
C 64 27 772-4391
E hamish@jackyanformayor.org
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Wellington, July 24 (JY&A Media) Mayoral candidate Jack Yan believes that opening up Wellington’s public data, especially for transport, can play a role in innovation and economic diversification, as part of a greater plan to build the city’s economy. ‘Opening up Metlink data,’ he says, ‘would encourage greater public transport usage for a start.’
   He says that by providing public data, Wellington developers to create apps and other programs. He identifies the real-time information used by Metlink as a prime candidate, from which a Wellington company can use the data for live maps of where buses and trains are, helping commuters and encouraging greater use of public transport.
   ‘We can encourage greater use of public transport if people have tools that appeal to them,’ he says. ‘People want predictability, and the ability to plan their day. Right now, we still don’t have enough when it comes to public transport.’
   Mr Yan is in favour of opening more of the city’s data to the public, and points to a competition in Maine earlier in June where netizens took public data and created projects to help the community.
   ‘Opening up data can not only show off our creative abilities as a city, but bring people together,’ he says. ‘It’s a small part of a much wider plan.
   ‘We can innovate and ensure that everything that the city currently measures with water and power usage is made public, so our best and brightest minds can come up with conservation and energy solutions.
   ‘We keep saying we are the creative capital, yet we don’t seem to tap in to this very creativity,’ he says.
   Mr Yan says that with more older voters than younger voters, some of the fresh ideas to make our services more appealing to “wired” users have been ignored by some candidates. ‘They are under a mistaken belief that older voters would not find such ideas useful, or they are choosing to ignore younger voters because they do not provide enough votes.’
   He says, ‘The best ideas have the potential to go global, and similar ones in New Zealand’s past—such as the computer graphics used to track America’s Cup entrants or TV weather maps—have gone on to be export earners for us.’
   Apps are already a major export earner for New Zealand presently.
   Other public data should be made available, he says, including public documents that currently are only available to citizens with official information requests. ‘They should be searchable, too,’ says Mr Yan. ‘The cost of putting them online is far lower than printing them out and posting them to people.’
   He says that if Wellington is to be a creative capital, it needs to get its fundamentals right.
   Mr Yan’s manifesto features more ideas on transparency and transport.
   He was the first mayoral candidate to publish a manifesto in April on his website (http://jackyan.com or http://backjack2013.com). It has a 10-point plan on kick-starting Wellington’s economy. He is the only candidate regularly conducting international business, with a strong entrepreneurial record, and has formally mentored Wellington businesses since 2006.
   In 2010, he had campaigned on free wifi for the inner city and waterfront, now a reality and used by a record number of people in Wellington.
Note to editors
This release may be viewed online at http://jyanet.com/info/2013/07/encouraging-greater-public-transport-use-give-people-the-tools-they-want-says-yan/.
Images

Publicity shot for Jack Yan’s mayoral campaign (2013)
http://jackyan.com
JPEG, 2·83 Mbyte
Photographed by Mikhail Ruzhanskiy
Additional images may be downloaded from http://jyanet.com/press/photo.htm.
About Jack Yan
Jack Yan founded Jack Yan & Associates (http://jya.net), one of the world’s first virtual firms, in 1987, operating internationally. Among his company’s interests are business consulting, imaging, software and media, including the fashion magazine brand Lucire. He writes on topics, ranging from branding and business responsibility to fashion and typography, in numerous publications and journals worldwide and is a regular international speaker. He serves on the editorial board for The Journal of Brand Management. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, including Beyond Branding, Typography and Branding and, most recently, Nation Branding: Country Concepts and Cases. His personal site is at jackyan.com. He is a director of the Medinge Group (http://medinge.org), a think-tank in Sweden devoted to cutting-edge branding. He was one of the parties behind the successful bid for Miss Sweden in 2003 for Panos Emporio, and is general counsel of the Miss New Zealand Consortium, the New Zealand licensee for Miss Universe. Since 2006, he has been a mentor with Business Mentors New Zealand. In 2013, he announced his second bid for the mayoralty in Wellington, New Zealand, after netting 12 per cent of the vote on his first attempt.
Contacts
Jack Yan
T 64 4 387-3213
E jack.yan@jyanet.com
Hamish McConnochie
Campaign Media Manager
C 64 27 772-4391
E hamish@jackyanformayor.org
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Wellington, July 17 (JY&A Media) Mayoral candidate Jack Yan will take the opportunity of his campaign hui at Soi, at Greta Pt, tonight to talk of his themes of growing Wellington and unity.
   Mr Yan talks not just of developing the economy—his 10-point growth plan and his entire manifesto have been available for public scrutiny since April—but of promoting cultural change within council, if elected.
   He claims that with his experience in international business and effecting cultural changes through rebranding, he can improve the relationship the council has with its officers.
   Having already established a good rapport with Hutt City Mayor Ray Wallace—as with Mr Yan, a St Mark’s old boy—he says he is looking forward to getting on similar terms with Upper Hutt Mayor Wayne Guppy and Porirua Mayor Nick Leggett, as well as WCC CEO Kevin Lavery.
   Mr Yan will also touch on transparency, to ensure that all public WCC documents are easily searchable, and pledges to remain accessible to the public via social networks and in person, as he has done ‘for the last six years’.
   In an advance copy of his speech, he says, ‘Since the local government reforms of 1989, the majority of Wellington mayors have not been former councillors, and were able to unite their councils. I have established relationships with most councillors equally over the years, and we can have a united council, one which will get things done for the people of Wellington.
   ‘My campaign team is made up of left and right, united with a passion for Wellington. It is almost a microcosm of the views expressed at council and a demonstration of what this city can do when leadership inspires and plays to individuals’ strengths.’
   The hui, which will see campaign supporters such as former mayor Sir Michael Fowler and former Miss Universe New Zealand Samantha Lochhead in attendance, will be giving 10 per cent of its proceeds to CanTeen, the only New Zealand organization that supports young people aged 13–24 living with cancer. A fashion show styled by Lucire fashion editor Sopheak Seng and directed by James Butters, and a live auction, will take place.
Note to editors
This release may be viewed online at http://jyanet.com/info/2013/07/jack-yan-expected-to-talk-of-unity-and-internal-cultural-change-at-mayoral-campaign-function/. A post-event release will be issued. It is the campaign’s wish to support CanTeen. This does not imply an endorsement by CanTeen of Jack Yan’s mayoral bid.
Images

Publicity shot for Jack Yan’s mayoral campaign (2013)
http://jackyan.com
JPEG, 2·83 Mbyte
Photographed by Mikhail Ruzhanskiy
Additional images may be downloaded from http://jyanet.com/press/photo.htm.
About Jack Yan
Jack Yan founded Jack Yan & Associates (http://jya.net), one of the world’s first virtual firms, in 1987, operating internationally. Among his company’s interests are business consulting, imaging, software and media, including the fashion magazine brand Lucire. He writes on topics, ranging from branding and business responsibility to fashion and typography, in numerous publications and journals worldwide and is a regular international speaker. He serves on the editorial board for The Journal of Brand Management. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, including Beyond Branding, Typography and Branding and, most recently, Nation Branding: Country Concepts and Cases. His personal site is at jackyan.com. He is a director of the Medinge Group (http://medinge.org), a think-tank in Sweden devoted to cutting-edge branding. He was one of the parties behind the successful bid for Miss Sweden in 2003 for Panos Emporio, and is general counsel of the Miss New Zealand Consortium, the New Zealand licensee for Miss Universe. Since 2006, he has been a mentor with Business Mentors New Zealand. In 2013, he announced his second bid for the mayoralty in Wellington, New Zealand, after netting 12 per cent of the vote on his first attempt.
Contacts
Jack Yan
T 64 4 387-3213
E jack.yan@jyanet.com
Hamish McConnochie
Campaign Media Manager
C 64 27 772-4391
E hamish@jackyanformayor.org
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