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
Jamelle Bouie: Most Republican senators voted to remove the unemployment expansion at its full size, but it survived. Billions of dollars of benefits have gone to tens of millions of Americans. The increase in aid was so great that, as...
Last night I sat down to test out a mic I just picked up and boy howdy I didn’t know I had this rant in me. In the future I’ll keep these much shorter perhaps but this one is apparently about: Audio logs and videogames!...
Well, now there’s a hot take huh. But let me explain. I think one of my shortcomings when it comes to design is this: I always want to fix the problem. I want to have the perfect idea, the perfect design doc, ready to go and implement...
I love the big dad energy of this introductory video to mmhmm, an app that lets you customize video presentations in a bunch of nifty ways. But what I like about it is that there’s no sense of “I hAvE rEdesIgned vIdEo FoR tHe 21st...
Now this is very interesting: the other day Robin released Sloanstarter, his very own crowdfunding campaign for his web/ebook/Kindle novella (personally, I prefer web novella or might I suggest webvella? Oh, I might not? Wow, rude.) The...
Via Robin’s newsletter I just spotted this release on Future Fonts of Nichrome by Mass-Driver, “a display face referencing the typography of paperback science fiction from the 70s and early 80s.” And these numbers in particular are...
On April 16th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from jail, where he was imprisoned for marching against segregation, and Jason Pamental made a rather lovely typeset version. In fact, Jason’s newsletter is a constant wellspring...
This is a reminder for myself in the future that all the work that Mandy Michael has been doing with variable fonts is remarkable and showcases what’s possible if we start to push the web into a weird place with fonts. See the Pen...
Derecka Purnell: Police couldn’t do what we really needed. They could not heal relationships or provide jobs. We were afraid every time we called. When the cops arrived, I was silenced, threatened with detention, or removed from my home....
“As long as we think abstractly,” writes Chris Hedges in his fantastic and heart-wrenching book War is a force that gives us meaning, “...as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of war our fulfillment [...] we will never...
Here’s something distasteful I've noticed over the past few weeks: instead of folks saying “I am learning and growing”—being honest with their mistakes—a large number of people are just shouting constantly into the void of social media...
When it comes to design systems I don’t have many words of advice. I have opinions and intense anxiety but giving advice without context of the organization, the codebase, the people, is so very hard to do. But if there’s one word of...
The latest album by HAIM, Women in Music Pt.III, has been on infinite repeat for the last couple of days. Their music is like a fantastical broth between PJ Harvey, Shania Twain, and One Little Plane. Also, they happen to be upsettingly...
Back in 2014 I was talking to a chap after a speaking gig in London and I had become the dictionary definition of a big dumb mess. I told him how I hadn’t slept the night before, how I was extremely nervous about the talk (which turned...
At my previous gig, Slack channels were weird. No one would talk about the work; what was good, what was bad, what was difficult, what we could be doing better. Folks kept their work private. So let’s say I was working on a refactoring...