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In New Zealand, you know you’ve made it
when someone commissions an Ant
Sang (Bro’ Town) illustration of you. From Idealog,
March–April 2007. The outfit is based on something I had in 2001,
and the mannequin supposedly shows I am involved in the fashion industry—at
least I’m not wearing the dress. More
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It’s about time I rewrote the introduction to this site after three
years. The intro first emerged on January 13, 2003, after I acquired this
domain the previous September.
I began running a virtual
company in 1987. Since then, I have managed to slip in to doing something
pioneering, usually out of luck—including starting Lucire,
the first web magazine to branch into international
print editions.
To keep sane, I practise reiki, meditate, and to inject
some insanity, I once created a political party (which did contest
the 2005 elections in New Zealand, many years after I founded it, and
departed from it).
Some of you will know me from my writings in Desktop
in Australia since 1996; and many others will know me from my calligraphy
and typeface design background
(I was New Zealand’s first digital font designer).
Here, I try to tie all these very disparate interests
together. I share with you my speeches, articles, some press appearances,
slides and info on my books, plus my blog,
which I launched in January 2006 after contributing to the Beyond
Branding Blog. In what I call The
Persuader Blog, in tribute to both a famous marketing book and
a TV series, I cover ethics, human rights, globalization and other pressing
issues connected to branding, media and my other areas of work.
By the very nature of this site, there isn’t much
room for humility. However, I hope that my papers and my work inspire
you and others.
Jack Yan
Planet Earth
February 1, 2006
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