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.
Latest Posts
Someone sent me an email the other week and wrote this line that I’ve been thinking about ever since: How to talk deeply about a subject but carry yourself lightly? I have no idea how to do this—to talk about Big and Serious things...
This post from John Boardley called Inventing Posters is worth every minute of your time. He looks at the history of engraving, drypoint, and etching illustrations: Just as the printing press brought knowledge and books to the entire...
Tom MacWright writes about the current landscape of reading on the web today: Books are amazing, but the options we have to buy books and track our reading are terrible. A lot of us are locked into the Amazon ecosystem - buying books on...
Derek Thompson: But the costs of hygiene theater are greater than dry hands for paranoid people. First, it’s absorbing precious resources. Urban-transit authorities have spent hundreds of millions of dollars blasting their subways and...
The other day I linked to Maciej Cegłowski’s talk about success and remarkably it’s not filled with stuff like “just wake up earlier, you poor idiots” which so many self-help talks are really saying. There’s a point in the talk I haven’t...
Robin made a few adjustments to The Society of the Double Dagger and the new format is great: he’s split up this newsletter into all sorts of micro-newsletters that you can pick and choose from. Not only that, but he’s also going to...
Craig is back to talk about year three of Special Projects where he describes how this subscription service is working out for him so far: A membership program should be seen as an accelerant for work you must do. That is, it should be...
When I look back on work from five or six years ago—heck, I don’t even have to go back that far—I see it clearly now: a few extra sentences here, another repetitive chunk of stuff over there. I’m so desperate to impress and swoon, so...
Here’s one for your RSS feeds: the blog of The Arrow Type foundry. That’s all.
This is a fabulous video by ContraPoints about J.K. Rowling, anti-trans sentiments, and what bigotry really is. I love Natalie’s videos for so many reasons—but this video reminds me why. Each of her arguments are like shots from an...
This piece by Jessica Boyall about the art of whaling is equal parts remarkable and horrifying: The first European settlers arrived at Nantucket, an isolated island some thirty miles from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1659. They built...
His voice is gone and the world is better for it. Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke, I don’t even need to say his name. But for the past five years his voice has poisoned everything. Those five years taught me that power is no longer about...
Alberto Manguel, writing in The Library at Night: The Web, and its promise of a voice and a site for all, is our equivalent of the mare incognitum, the unknown sea that lured ancient travelers with the temptation of discovery. Immaterial...
Adventures in Typography is back, folks! After a far too long hiatus I’m bringing this little newsletter back for what I’m calling Season 3—I’ll publish one each Sunday from now until spring. That way I can give myself a goal without it...
Descript is incredible; it’s an app for making transcriptions and recording podcasts/videos. The interface for editing everything is absolutely buck wild because you can edit the transcribed text from the audio you’ve recorded and that...