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
Here’s a neat newsletter about the web and accessibility from David A. Kennedy. Looks like a lot of interesting links with each issue and if you’re interested in learning more about a11y then I think it’s most certainly worth checking out.
Here is a website. Click on it. You’ll find yourself sat in front of a giant pirate treasure map with absolutely no clue as to what it is or how to use it. Scroll around a bit and you’ll see islands of text floating in the open ocean and...
Dang! I love this automated book review and publish setup by Katy Decorah. She made a GitHub action called read-action to fetch the metadata of a book and add it to a yaml file on her website. After that, Katy then made an iOS Shortcut...
Jon Lovett’s 2013 commencement speech is great: One of the greatest threats we face, simply put, is bullshit. We are drowning in it [...] I believe we are at peak bullshit.
Here's a fabulous talk by Jonathan Blow about the quality of software, video games, and...ahem...the end of civilization. One of the really interesting parts of this talk is when Blow mentions just how much energy is required to teach...
Anna Wiener: Just as there is “podcast voice”—that inquisitive, staccato bedtime-story cadence—there is Substack tone, a semi-professional quality suited to mass e-mail. Some newsletters convey intimacy, in the language of psychotherapy...
I spotted Etna the other day and it’s pretty remarkable. It’s a new typefamily by Mark Simonson, inspired by wood type in the 19th century, and the micro-site is so much fun even if you absolutely hate fonts and your nemesis is a .woff...
Borges was a racist. And Borges wrote beautiful things. The latter does not excuse the former but I struggle to live in a world where both of these things can be true. I've always struggled with it, in fact. Read The Book of Sand and try...
I’m running out of books, and I need your help. It looks like I’ll be spending Christmas alone here in San Francisco and so I need copious distractions. So: what is your favorite winter book? The sort of books that you associate most...
I’ve been reading The Iliad and the Odyssey by Alberto Manguel where he looks at those two epic poems and before you yawn and click away—wait! This book sure is yawn inducing from a mile away, but up close I think it’s extremely...
Last night was manic and dizzying, and it all began with re-reading Alberto Manguel’s book A Reader on Reading. Manguel is one of my favorite writers and if you’ve never read or even heard his name then go and pick up The Library at...
Sentry is looking for a senior product designer to join the team in Vienna. We’re doing a bunch of exciting work and I wouldn’t link to it here unless I loved my current gig. Also! Get in touch if you’re interested and have any questions...
This was the job: sit in the tractor, break the ice, save the world. It was boredom beyond boredom, the sort of monotony that stretched out all day long, but each time Marlo climbed into his tractor, the world became safer by a smudge....
This video by Tom Scott about the early history of the web and how we found ourselves in a nightmare of popups and bad web design is worthy of your time. Tom walks through the EU’s legal confrontation with shady advertisers and why so...
Via Susan Jean Robertson, here’s a story about Octavia Butler's life for the LA Times by Aida Ylanan and Casey Miller—they’ve made a particularly lovely story here by binding the map of Butler’s life with the format of the site itself....