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
From Alice Bartlett’s blog, weak notes, where she quotes from an entry of Feminist Friday: This week my thoughts have particularly turned to parents, and to parents who are working from home while their kids are under their feet and...
My pal Jez Burrows has started a newsletter called Dept. of Enthusiasm and I think everyone should sign up. Why? Well, first off—rude. Second, JB is one of my favorite people in the world but he also happens to be one of my favorite...
I tried to avoid writing about it. To write over it, even; to skip, hop, and dance around the topic so that I can focus on sharing lovely things. Everything useful and everything awful has already been said about the event. But dammit, I...
Whenever I’m nervous or upset I tend to pull up my sleeves and throw myself at the ol’ website. Out of pure anxiety I’ll change the fonts over an evening of frantic typing, or I’ll bump up the font size with a glass of wine. Over a...
I wrote a piece for CSS Tricks the other day about why the CSS language is frustrating: I reckon the biggest issue that engineers face — and the reason why they find it all so dang frustrating — is that CSS forces you to face the...
Kicks Condor: It seems that everything is white and blue in the present day. We’ve settled on these neutral colors, in case we need to sell it all. The old garish animated construction cones and embedded MIDI files are relegated to...
Season 3 landed on Netflix yesterday and it’s one of the very few shows that I’ll drop everything for, although I guess that can be said for every Warren Ellis project. That’s because—in classic Ellisian fashion—this season is like a...
The other day I mentioned that I might not be taking writing seriously enough and then, in a delightfully bloggish way, Robin Sloan riffed on this idea. He published his own thoughts about writing and lightness and this part stuck out to...
“Am I taking this seriously enough?” I ask myself. You know, ~this~; the words and the typing, the becoming-a-writer-slowly-over-time thing. I put pen to paper maybe a couple of times a week but do I spend hours a day writing in hopes of...
Here’s a video essay about “following people from afar on the Internet” called Fraidycat, which also happens to be the name of a desktop app and browser extension for following hundreds of people on whatever platform they’re on. If you...
Helen Macdonald’s novel H Is for Hawk is infuriating because it’s overwhelmingly kind and has just the sort of style that I often shoot for in Adventures. It hops and skips along, without a mean bone in its body. There’s so much momentum...
Here’s some good writing advice and tough love from Hugh Howey where he discusses being in a writing room for a TV show and how it applies to his work in books: I figured out a long time ago that it’s often better to delete entire...
Over the Christmas break I read a book about underground places called Underland where Robert Macfarlane investigates mines, caves, burial sites, and even ventures deep into the network of tunnels beneath Paris. For the most part I...
Dave Rupert mentioned the other day that he had made a page on his website that gathers his most recent favorites from Feedbin and lets you scroll through them or even subscribe to them. I thought this was such a great idea that I...
Dorian Taylor has written an outstanding piece about making software and project management. He rushes out of the gate with the following sentence: The Agile Manifesto is an immune response on the part of programmers to bad management. I...