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
My desk faces west towards the Sutro Tower and to be quite honest I only picked this apartment because of the tower and how it looms above Twin Peaks (those lumpy bumpy ridges above). As soon as I walked in the front door I knew that...
Jer Thorp on data systems and how bias, whether intentional or not, affects the representation of that data: Whenever you look at data — as a spreadsheet or database view or a visualization, you are looking at an artifact of such a...
Tim Maly on the election: I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit hanging around the online communities of the kind of people we are worried about reaching here, and I am here to tell you: They are using their critical thinking...
What’s your favorite website? Which is the one above all the others that you think about from time to time? In fact, which website do you not only think about but obsess over? I don’t want you to think about which website is the most...
Writing for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Alan Toner describes the current state of advertising on the web and criticizes Google for not just allowing but almost encouraging advertisers to surveil users on the web: Ad quality needs...
A train. A tunnel. Oakland. Walking in the dim light. A bar. Paper (a book). Beer. Basketball on the screen. A small crowd. An argument at the other end of the bar. Singing outside. A birthday. An hour or two. Hannah. A smile. Hugging....
Ingrid Burrington is one of my favorite writers and here she’s jotted down notes from a talk she made on data centers and power: When I’ve gone on data center tours I know most of this security theater isn’t really for me, but there is a...
Philip Smith made a lovely recording of him playing piano, but the story behind the recording is just as charming as the music itself: Yesterday, on my way home, I went into a bar-restaurant I'd never been into before. There was a goat...
Scott Rosenberg on Google Books: ...Google started Books with a “better ask forgiveness than permission” attitude that’s common today in the world of startups. In a sense, the company behaved like the Uber of intellectual property — a...
Frank Chimero on text and image: Go take a look at your bookshelf: most books are seas of text without pictures. When a book does have imagery, they are marooned onto their own page, or the text tiptoes alongside the image, reticent and...
Nick Harkaway on the experience of writing his latest novel: This was like weaving a tapestry thread by thread while holding the entire design in your head, and my head just wasn’t big enough. Meanings intersected with other meanings,...
In Letter from a Drowned Canyon Rebecca Solnit marks a super interesting distinction between being a conservationist and being an environmentalist: In the late 1950s, the news about radioactive fallout across the United States from the...
I’ve been reading a lot of great things via the magic of hyperlinks lately and just wanted to quickly jot down everything as best I could. I hope you enjoy reading this lot as much as I did. Here’s a great post by Tim Carmody on how...
Considering I’m from the UK there were a few peculiar obstacles I had to circumnavigate before I could get back to riding a motorcycle, hence I thought it might be helpful for others if I jotted that whole process down. At the beginning...
For a good long while I’ve been helping out with the CSS-Tricks newsletter every week(ish). Each issue is jam packed with our thoughts about front-end development and design. We try pretty hard to make sure there’s something interesting...