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.
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Helena Fitzgerald made some lovely notes about her favorite band: Most of the things we love are the things that embarrass us. [...] I had never loved a band like I loved this band, and the truth is I never really have since. I...
This talk by John Roderick is still outstanding. Dammit, ugh! I remember sitting in the audience that year and swooning the whole way through this thing (you can actually see me in the video sat next to two people I love and at one point...
San Francisco is now warmer with each passing day, the winter chill almost tuned out from the evenings. It’s the sort of weather that I completely adore, the very cusp between winter and summer, and it’s the reason why I can’t imagine...
Seraph is equal parts stately and weird—it’s a new type family from Bernd Volmer and the specimen site happens to be simply outstanding. This is mostly thanks to the wide range of styles available; from slab, sans, wedge, tuskan, and...
This week was mostly good. It’s hard to say that during the pandemic (to care about your own well-being seems so very selfish). But the daily exercise is helping me concentrate and be a bit more upbeat. Although...the weigh in was...
Here’s Maciej Cegłowski on why we should wear a mask when walking around in public: In countries like Taiwan and Japan, even before this pandemic started, it was common for people to put on a mask on at the first sign of a cold, or to...
I’ve been listening to Planet Hearth by Calibre relentlessly over the past couple of days and I’ve found it to be excellent web-surfing and work music. It’s more gentle than Calibre’s previous stuff. Last night I was listening to it...
I like this bit from an interview with Ted Chiang: ...traditional “good vs. evil” stories follow a certain pattern: the world starts out as a good place, evil intrudes, good defeats evil, and the world goes back to being a good place....
I have news! This week I found out that my visa has been approved and so now I’m ready to start work at the ever-so-excellent Sentry. My first day will be at the end of the month and I couldn’t be more excited; the team is fabulous, the...
It begins with sticky notes: everyone in the room has been given five minutes, maybe ten, to scribble their ideas down, a few minutes more tacking them up on the wall, and then talking through each one—an example might be a suggestion...
To spread out the anxiety a bit during the Quarantimes, I’ve transformed my apartment into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber; I picked up an exercise bike and I’ve started to treat my health more seriously. I also noticed that throwing all...
Not much to report today: San Francisco is intermittently speckled with rain and the tree outside my bedroom window sways from side to side whilst I pretend to do useful things with my keyboard. All is quiet here in the quarantine. But...
For some reason today I find myself scouring through the archives of Grilli Type and I particularly love the catalogue page where they show a list of every family available: It’s a simple layout without any flair, but dang I just want to...
I ravaged this collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman called Norse Mythology; it reminds me of Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath and brought me back to replaying the latest installment in the God of War series. Gaiman collects some of the...
I adore this video all about the past, present, and future of copyright by Tom Scott. He looks at how our legal system no longer makes any sense, as today we don’t need a big publishing company to distribute our work to millions of...