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
Umm...uhhh...there is an edit of Raiders of the Lost Arc by Steven Soderbergh and it is the single most perfect thing. No greater, more perfectest thing has ever existed. It’s in black and white with the soundtrack from The Social...
Imagine a future made perfect. What would you fix? Think of all the ways our society could be made better, kinder. Well, I think the problem with all these wondrous futures and more perfect worlds is that they often make for...
Okay! Since I mentioned that the Kindle is a punk rock essay machine I’ve started to wonder...what if I gathered a bunch of my favorite posts from Adventures, bundled them up into a Kindle book and donated all the proceeds to charity? It...
Arguments, political pamphlets, essays about civil rights; the longer I look at the Kindle this time around the more I see it as the perfect little punk rock essay machine. Sure, a lot of what I said about the Kindle is still true. But...
I just started reading Ijeoma Oluo’s ever so excellent book So You Want to Talk About Race. Her writing is laser-focused and this bit in particular where Ijeoma compares white supremacy to an abusive relationship jolted me awake: When I...
There’s a line in Close to the Machine where Ellen Ullman is writing about technology and the future, and there’s an image that I haven’t been able to shake in all the years since I read her book: The future. Right again. The new:...
Rachel Sugar: Walking doesn’t improve the taste of coffee, but coffee improves the experience of being in the world. It blunts the harsher edges. Without coffee, there is “public space” and “private space.” With coffee, the whole city is...
Good morning! Today I'm homesick. Although it is most certainly weird to use that word, home, when speaking of the UK so I'm not sure what would be a better an alternative. I just miss it all like hell. I miss dark pubs in the...
In his newsletter, Dept. of Enthusiasm, Jez mentioned Labi Siffre’s Remember My Song which I had never heard before. It’s been playing in the background whilst I cook this evening and it’s just so very perfect.
I found out about Dream Wiki through Kicks Condor’s surreal blog and damn is this just what I meant about making websites weird. I have no idea who made this “GARDEN OF ASSOCIATIVE THOUGHT SLURRY COMBINED FIELD NOTES-CAREFULLY GROWN.”...
I’ve been struggling to read for quite some time as my focus can barely hold on long enough to grasp a paragraph or two. And this is only made worse by a crush; a few weeks ago I started flirting with someone that I’ve known for a decade...
In a post I wrote a while back about dark mode and variable fonts, Gerhard Großmann made this rather lovely comment: In typography it’s well known that luminous letters on dark backgrounds tend to look bolder. Unfortunately I know the...
My pal Lucy Bellwood jotted down some notes about being patient with yourself: The impulse to fix fix fix work work work shout shout shout until it all gets done in one breathless swoop is strong. But I think it's the same impulse that...
Dave Chappelle’s latest show on the murder of George Floyd, 8:46: ...he’s not a hero and why does the black community make him a hero? Why do you choose him as a hero? WE didn’t choose him, YOU did. They killed him and that wasn’t right,...
I guess I’m feeling a bit nostalgic this evening. Or perhaps nostalgic is not the right word, maybe confused instead. That’s because I’m on the lookout for new blogs and websites, and I’m stumbling upon a few common patterns; portfolios...