Best of Design Matters: Jack White and Ben Jenkins

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

A love for craftsmanship, design, and baseball brings music legend Jack White and design entrepreneur Ben Jenkins together. In 2016, Jack White became an investor in Ben Jenkins's sporting goods brand, Warstic. Today the company does so much more than manufacture artisan baseball bats.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:08.0	Got a business problem?
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0:10.4	Stay updated on everything business, on Ted Business, a podcast hosted by Columbia Business
0:15.2	School Professor Modoupe Akinola.
0:18.0	Every week, she'll introduce you to leaders with unique insights on work, answering questions
0:22.4	like, how do four day work weeks work?
0:25.3	Do will a machine ever take my job?
0:27.7	Have some surprising answers on Ted Business, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:34.2	This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in May of 2022.
0:39.9	Us designers know I think we have weapons that are disposal that non-creative people don't
0:44.1	have.
0:45.1	I'm too far into the art side of it, but I'm not selling my, taking my pieces and selling
0:48.4	that at art galleries either.
0:50.0	It's sort of like, this is for nobody, but me.
0:57.0	In the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
1:04.0	For 18 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about
1:07.9	what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working
1:12.2	on.
1:13.4	On this episode, we hear from musician Jack White and designer Ben Jenkins about their business
1:18.6	collaboration.
1:19.6	Baseball vets are a really simple thing, I bet I could figure that out.
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