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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In this non-fiction account of the last five apolayptic scenarios our planet has endured, Peter Brannen writes in lucid detail in The Ends of the World about what led to each of them and, potentially, how we might be entering a new...
Back in 2012 Matt Taibbi wrote this incredible piece about who Mitt Romney is and his revolutionary political aspirations. The whole piece is both infuriating and terrifying: Forget about the Southern strategy, blue versus red, swing...
There, I said it. Of all the engineers I’ve met over the years only one has come close to what that title, full-stack engineer, implies: the ability to easily navigate the back-end and front-end with a senior level of expertise. For the...
Zach Leatherman: We may be trapped in a web of competing formats, open and closed, standardized and proprietary, single vendor controlled and community driven, available for all and tightly held in app stores and behind walled gardens....
Over the past week a lot of friends have shared this story by Anthony Bourdain, supposedly his first published piece, called Don’t Eat Before Reading This and in true Bourdainian style it’s lovely as all hell: I love the sheer weirdness...
I had coffee with an internet friend the other day for the first time and I asked her what she was reading. She immediately started talking about a book set in Texas that she had fallen completely in love with but couldn’t recommend...
I was in a meeting the other day and it dawned on me that it would be much easier to get through it if I was drunk. The conversation was a little too slow, both of us seemed to push and pull our way through the meeting as neither of us...
The other day I read Jenny Odell’s piece about how to do nothing – it’s all about the value of free, public spaces like gardens – and since then I’ve been mulling over this part especially: …those spaces which are not seen as...
I love what Jeremy has to say here about frameworks and the web: I’ve come to believe that the goal of any good framework should be to make itself unnecessary ...and how that ultimately relates to the AMP project: If the AMP project...
Here’s a note I made in the most recent CSS-Tricks Newsletter which, yes, you absolutely should sign up to as quickly as humanly possible. We take the latest and greatest news from the web design community and deliver it straight to your...
If you want to be a good writer then you can’t worry about the numbers. The stats, the dashboards, the faves, likes, hearts and yes, even the claps, they all lead to madness and, worst of all in my opinion, bad writing. To become a good...
I wrote a quick thing the other day for CSS-Tricks all about the backdrop-filter CSS property which, although not particularly well supported today, highlights just how powerful CSS is becoming. backdrop-filter allows us to add a filter...
I love this piece by Chappell Ellison so much; she looks at design criticism from a different point of view: Universities teach you how to give criticism. They’ve been doing it for centuries. They supply all sorts of texts so that you...
A wonderful new piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye West, Michael Jackson, and celebrity: ...[Kanye] is a god, though one born of a different time and a different need. Jackson rose in the last days of enigma and wonder; West, in an...
I took a little time off last week and for a couple of days I headed up to Oregon on my bike. Together we drove through swooping valleys and up into snow-capped mountains, around twisty rock faces and great empty plains; every moment was...