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Sharing in support of all the talent at World of WearableArt (WOW) this year!

Grace DuVal wins World of Wearable Art Supreme Award for 2024 Grace DuVal's sixth time entering the World of Wearable Art awards sees her take out the top prize

I don’t use this website much but in the circumstances, this is important, especially for a dear friend. Please help if you can, and here is the donation link:

Mandi needs your help Mandi Kingsbury's MS is giving her the biggest fight of her life after a severe attack has paralysed her and she needs our help.

Happy Matariki, everyone. A small contribution from me toward The Asian Aotearoan Project in this discussion of maramataka.

https://www.facebook.com/asianaotearoanproject/posts/pfbid0eW5jTfCz8eM5pgQvawcshTJbVHC7ic8qzxrYiFxMWnqBCNwxcN1uSagCSjkaGe5sl?__cft__[0]=AZX6hNrKtglL7k8jxznAUYrtixdS8TyggyQ3uUB_DclGv49ugJdLpzRtA_2cibvghLSsv0Vbym-F-TbA0Cf-xtag2RtqQhDIFtnYnamY9CA0ztE_hFJyLbHIiPhMi--wBYcxTB87K7Eczh4JaI4RsyRvpn-8Gq1-sFVSVcknamicm9W90KQO0RleFQskGNhxc_HoERHJL6gOJFJnj0HULIO4&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R

Living in a Western-dominant culture may cause some to think that Matariki or Chinese New Year or the maramataka are exotic or arbitrary bits of culture that have no relevance to practicalities, and that we’re just celebrating for no reason but to seem cultured.

But actually, very often, culture comes from what works practically for people in their specific environment. That includes Māori and Asian timekeeping. Many cultures used the moon for time keeping, as it was a visible and practical marker to use.

🗓️ Here is just an example of the similarities between the Maramataka and Chinese Calendar (which was the basis for many other East Asian calendar systems).

There are so many other cool things about these systems, like leap months! Comment MOON if you want us to DM you some interesting sites, including checking what moon phase it is today on the maramataka.

Thank you to Jack Yan, whose insights & original blog post on his Chinese calendar and Maramataka conversion table supported this post!

Mānawatia a Matariki!

Wonderful piece today from Eda Tang on the reo tūpuna of Chinese New Zealanders.

Six ancestral languages of Chinese New Zealanders In Chinese Language Week, six New Zealanders talk about their relationship with Taishanese, Mongolian, Hakka, Cantonese, Teochew and Mandarin.

My first blog post for Insight Creative: whatever happened to corporate identity? (Clue: it’s never gone away and integrated marketing communications are more important than ever, especially with what’s been happening to social media.)

https://insightcreative.co.nz/blog/whatever-happened-to-corporate-identity/

Whatever happened to Corporate Identity? | Insight Creative Whatever happened to Corporate Identity? 31 Jul 2023 by Jack Yan Guest post: Jack Yan, LLB, BCA (Hons), MCA. Jack is an independent director of Insight Creative. He began working in design in Wellington in 1987, and is a co-chair of Medinge Group, a think-tank for branding professionals founded in S...

I know of some very nice office space in the CBD currently occupied by one person and could do with one more. It’s classy and roomy with more than enough for two (it used to house three). Reasonable rates, ideal for a freelancer or contractor. Please let me know if you’re interested, and I can put you in touch.

The quickest way to reach me is via email, please: [email protected] (obviously replace the first part with the correct info!).

Are folks able to help this couple out? Let’s make their remaining time together memorable and happier.

Yahn only has a couple of months to complete his bucket list. Let’s put Yahn on an alpine train and send him to Hobbiton. Put Yahn on a Gondola, or buy him a beer at the Green Dragon, or let him visit some pretty places, or have a fancy night out.

I wonder what a company of people, who were advised to dumb down their CVs to suit the market, would look like. IMO this would be an amazing consultancy full of some incredible advisers.

Having completed my maximum six years on one board, I’m on the lookout for another board role, either as a member or as chair. Anyone else need my expertise in a governance capacity? Sing out, keen to see who might need my guidance (especially tech, exports, licensing, design, creative—or something which doesn’t have these ingredients yet might need them!).

Very stoked to have scored Highly Commended for Panos: My Life, My Odyssey in London on Tuesday at the Business Book Awards! While not there in person my mug was in the room! Congratulations to Panos Papadopoulos for being recognized for his story! It was a privilege to ghost for such a dear friend of over 20 years and get his words on paper. Big thanks to Martin Liu at LID Publishing for overseeing everything, Aiyana Curtis and the editorial team, and Teya Ucherdzhieva! Thank you to Stefan Engeseth for his friendship and for being the first to break the news to me!

Can I now say I’m an ‘award-winning author’?

https://lucire.com/insider/20230518/panos-my-life-my-odyssey-gets-highly-commended-at-business-book-awards/

Do you need ? If so, you can book me for a series of one-on-one sessions. After 17 years with Business Mentors New Zealand, I’ve made the call to do it on my own for everyone, commercially—so wherever you are in the world, send me a message through my new website!

Jack Yan—official site Jack Yan's personal website, detailing his work in branding, type design, publishing, writing and politics, and his legal and business background.

It’s Whiro, or the first day, of Kohitātea.

Happy New Year, everyone! #新年快樂!

For those who missed me on RNZ’s The Panel last week, you can find the links here:

https://jackyan.com/blog/2022/06/my-notes-from-rnzs-the-panel-wednesday-june-22/

Thank you to Komoneed for this wonderful interview about sustainable fashion! I had to put on my hat as founder and publisher of Lucire for this one. Thoroughly enjoyable!

https://komoneed.com/interview-with-jack-yan-on-global-sustainable-fashion/

Interview with Jack Yan on Global Sustainable Fashion » Komoneed Interview with Jack Yan, New Zealand publisher, designer, and businessman. Founder of several business ventures including Lucire magazine

I have a new book coming out! Well, it’s not really mine—it’s the autobiography of my good friend Panos Papadopoulos, the creator of the swimwear label Panos Emporio. Through 2021, Panos and I collaborated on bringing his story to life, and it’s out on May 26 in London, with a launch event in Stockholm on May 31! Read more about it at https://lucire.com/insider/20220516/swedens-king-of-swimwear-panos-papadopoulos-reveals-all-in-his-new-autobiography/ (with ordering links from Amazon UK and Barnes & Noble).

I imagine some of you also follow Lucire. The reason there have been no updates from Lucire on Facebook since ANZAC Day (April 25) is that the ‘Create post’ button is missing, no post from any Meta-approved app can get through, and the settings and most of the other functions are now gone, too. No, we weren’t hacked. Here’s more:

https://jackyan.com/blog/2022/05/the-end-of-facebook-pages/

Since that post, they now claim that as the page has a strong following, they (and not we) instigated a form of two-factor authentication for it—which unfortunately prevents us (!) from doing anything with the page! Hey, Mark: ‘Gun, meet foot.’

I imagine someone out there can access it, since five years ago I had full privileges on a page where I had no role whatsoever!

https://jackyan.com/blog/2017/06/facebook-lets-me-have-full-access-on-someones-public-page-but-im-not-an-admin/

We’ll do a bit more investigating but overall I’m prepared to call it quits on this buggy platform, which has never functioned properly. If it can be easily restored, fab; the automated gadgets will recommence their work. If not, then that was a run. Not a good run, just a run.

The end of pages? « Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog Facebook has removed the most important functions on a page. They really are this stupid.

Published today by Medinge Group! Part of an international study on brands with a conscience that Susan Ninan (then doing postgrad at VUW) and I had a hand in. https://medinge.org/brands-with-a-conscience-a-research-study-into-how-business-can-do-the-right-thing-and-be-profitable/

Brands with a Conscience: a research study into how business can do the right thing and be profitable | The Medinge Group Brands with a Conscience: a research study into how business can do the right thing and be profitable Medinge Group has been working with the idea of brands with a conscience since 2005, and in 2021, we initiated an international series of research studies looking at how conscience is understood by....

To everyone observing the lunar calendar, happy New Year! 新年快樂!

(Also it means it’s five lunar months to Aotearoa’s lunar New Year, Matariki!)

I’ve always enjoyed my friend and colleague Stanley Moss’s Global Brand Letter and this time, he’s not keeping it to a select group of subscribers! Head here for the latest issue, free (no catch, no sign-ups, just enjoy):

http://jackyan.com/blog/2022/01/stanley-mosss-latest-global-brand-letter-out-now/

What a real honour to promote my reo! Thank you Dr Grace Gassin and Te Papa for spearheading this and for this incredible post! Obviously I couldn’t say anything earlier, especially during , but I am extremely grateful the very distinct Chinese languages are being given their due with this project!

Such an amazing crew on this, with Yong-Le Chong directing and prompting me off-camera and Tim Hamilton as DOP—plus Grace and Daniel Crichton-Rouse from Te Papa producing and supervising.

https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2021/10/26/its-who-i-am-publisher-and-typeface-designer-jack-yan-on-cantonese/

‘It’s who I am’: publisher and typeface designer Jack Yan on Cantonese | Te Papa’s Blog In this third instalment of the Chinese Languages in Aotearoa project, curator Grace Gassin and magazine publisher and typeface designer Jack Yan talk about Cantonese, an especially significant lan…

Twenty-four years since I uploaded the home page for Lucire and made the original website live! (Below is actually a 2003 screenshot.) A big thank-you to all those who supported us over the years, to the loyal members of the Lucire team, to our great licensees, to the printers and advertisers, and to our many readers who obviously have excellent taste and discernment!

Lucire on Twitter “Happy birthday to us! We just turned 24! ”

Big thanks to Leonard Kim for his interview this morning NZDT for his VoiceAmerica - Live Internet Talk Radio show, Grow Your Influence Tree! I thoroughly enjoyed discussing publishing, marketing and branding, and the changes that I’ve seen with Lucire over the last 24 years, with Leonard. And keep listening, his other episodes are great!

https://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/133876/grow-your-influence-tree-october-14th-2021

Grow Your Influence Tree - October 14th, 2021 | Grow Your Influence Tree - October 14th, 2021 Thursday, October 14, 2021 on Grow Your Influence Tree | VoiceAmerica - The Leader in Internet Media