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
Zeynep Tufekci: There is a Turkish saying for times like these, when we can see a light at the end of the tunnel: “Time passes quickly if we can count the days until the end.” We are no longer in the open-ended, dreadful period of spring...
Heather Havrilesky’s life advice: The good news is that once you understand the things that trigger you, attract you, make you anxious, relax you, etc, the whole world looks a lot less complicated: You seek worthy judges in life and you...
Over the course of a summer it all clicked for me. I mean how computers are for much more than playing Zoombinis and making spreadsheets. And I cannot describe how liberating that felt. My life today is still buzzing in the afterglow of...
Over the past few weeks I’ve made a few notes about some front-end things for CSS-Tricks. First up, I wrote about the flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis CSS properties and a simple trick to understand the flex shorthand that you see...
I saw Eddie Glaude as all good things used to appear—in a flash, captured somewhere in a snippet of video in my timeline. I can’t remember how and when and where but I remember thinking “holy shit, I want to read something like this.” A...
She once texted me from a train. "I am enjoying my own company, giggling to myself," she said. O was not a good person, but she was dazzling. Because in those rare moments in which she loved herself it was impossible not to agree with...
We knew Biden and Harris were going to win days before they did, but when the call came on Saturday morning I found myself without excitement. I didn’t shout “yahoo!” or jump up and down. Short bursts of relief were punctured by the...
Prop 22 passed in California, and Alex Press wrote about why it’s devastating: On Tuesday, California voters passed Proposition 22, a ballot measure backed by app-based “gig” companies that exempts them from classifying their estimated...
Election anxiety has led to a small website cleanup today. To the ol’ blog I added a reply link that lets you pop open an email directly to me — emails I get from here are a pure delight and I want to encourage many more conversations...
Students at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp documented their research of the 18th-century Belgian punchcutter Jacques-François Rosart and turned it into a fabulous website called The Rosart Project. But what’s so...
Robinson Meyer just started a newsletter about the environment called The Weekly Planet that I’m pretty excited about. He’s on the climate crisis beat for The Atlantic, where he writes: Many readers, as well as some of my own colleagues,...
1 Absolute War Crime of Coffee 2 Inconsequential and Underwhelming Tuna Sandwiches 4 Hateful Amounts of Chicken An Unknown Number of Tragic Bachelor Omelettes
After screaming for several months non-stop about it, my pal Lucy Bellwood has finally relented and is now starting to blog more often. Lucy writes (and this is why you should subscribe to this RSS feed immediately): I’m lying in the...
One thing I’ve noticed in video games this past year is the huge improvement they’ve made when it comes to accessibility. Crack open The Last of Us: Part II or Watch Dogs: Legion or Gears 5 and they’ll begin with a series of...
Woh Hei Yuen is a little park in Chinatown and I’m the only one here; I’m sat at a picnic table in the dark and the cold, looking forlornly at the pagoda across from me where a cat is showing off, prowling along the very top. This whole...