Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
I’m Robin, a British designer, writer, and typographic nuisance from San Francisco. Today I’m a designer at Apple although previously I’ve made software at Retool, Sentry, and Gusto as well as for clients like Buttondown and XOXO.
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Back in 2012, Doug Wilson made one of those Defining Media Objects for me—a fantastic movie called Linotype: The Film. Watching it then in college, it certainly pushed me towards publishing and typography and learning about these...
I’m not ready to write just yet; the sun is in the wrong place, the coffee is too hot, my sweater is too scratchy. I’ll take any excuse I can get to avoid sitting down and bang my head against a block of text that refuses to figure...
A calendar invite will appear with a cryptic note: a strange location attached — somewhere in the middle of nowhere up north, across the bridge — and a dozen or so people on your team will be subscribed. It might be bowling, or a visit...
I can’t look at Dave’s tutorial about the View Transitions API without my mind racing through all the possibilities here. How does this change web design in the future? Do websites even use frameworks if all you need for some app-like...
Sometimes you don’t want to get distracted by flashy fonts and colors and what you really need is a great typeface that looks handwritten. But the other day I struggled finding something appropriate so, after asking around, I’m noting...
There’s a lot of similarities between writing music and building websites. And, in my teens, that’s what I thought I’d be doing with my career; spending my lifetime in a dark room, playing with sounds and tinkering with adding layers...
One of the real fucked up things about being an adult is how all those feelings you had at sixteen—not knowing what you’re doing with your life etc.—never really leave you. Those feelings might temporarily soften and quiet down but...
Have you seen those fancy cards that pop open when ya click em and reveal more info? I think I saw em on Apple dot com not so long ago although now I can’t find a good example. Well, this morning I realized we don’t need a ton of...
Well, this sure is exciting: Syntax, the web dev podcast by Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski, is joining the team at Sentry. Over on the Sentry blog, Cramer wrote about why this makes a bunch of sense and how Syntax will grow in the future:...
As good as my eye might be after years of looking at letters, arranging white space is where I always fall short. And you can tell immediately when someone has fantastic white-space skills. It’s like watching a tea ceremony that’s been...
We’re in Sonoma this weekend and I’m sat by the pool with one objective: finish Ray Nayler’s electric, goosebump-inducing novel The Mountain in the Sea. I’ve been sat in the sun for far too long but I can’t stop turning the page, can’t...
During the week I’m now slammed; meetings to meet, Slack threads to be unthreaded, and with endless emails inbetween that are nothing more than a distraction. Suddenly I find that my time has splintered into all these tiny incremental...
There’s been years without building anything worthwhile, years without contribution, empty days and weeks without progress, with no great thing made, no lovely object at the end to show for it. There have been whole months without...
My family had a room that we called the Library, but even back then I knew it was really just our dining room with a few bookshelves around a small table. When I was a kid I would look up at this tower of books though and wonder at all...
Molly White: Recent weeks have drawn a bold underline beneath what has been clear to many for a long time: that those controlling massive amounts of capital and power in our society are not the smartest, or most level-headed, or most...