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
Sloan, in a post about his Spring ‘83 protocol/social network experiment, noted how it feels to be on the web right now: You feel it, don’t you? They’re all crumbling, the platforms of the last decade. It’s unsettling, but/and also...
At the beginning of the pandemic I snapped into shape. I had just been fired and dumped, my visa on the verge of expiring. All things looked down and to the right. One day, in an effort to stop feeling sorry for myself, I dragged an...
In a dazed fury the other day I saw that A Plague Tale: Requiem came out and so many folks were saying so many good things about it that I decided to pick up the first game in the series called A Plague Tale: Innocence and see what the...
I finally watched Everything Everywhere All At Once last night and I have never cry/laughed as much as that before. But there was a line in the movie that struck me: When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It...
I really like what Chris says here about email: I do think it’s OK to kinda poke through your inbox sometimes just to remind your brain about things in there you might need to get to. But just marking your messages as read is essentially...
Somewhere in this sea of mustaches is my great grandfather on my mom’s side, William French. He could be any one of these faces; there’s no blondish hair, big-ish noses, or any other genetic quirk of chance that’s familiar to me. All...
106,820 people visited my website last week. Two posts had been upvoted to the top of the orange website and a hellish amount of attention was suddenly thrown my way. This has happened before and I’ve always felt conflicted about it. The...
After long bouts of work—months and months uninterrupted—I become a slug person; small hurdles spike my anxiety, my anger flares at the slightest confrontation, I notice fewer jokes, fewer attempts on my part to make people laugh. My...
Jim Nielsen: Prototyping is moving. It’s the meeting, the considering, and the conceptualizing, but with iterative progress in a concrete artifact. When you’re done, you’re left with something tangible — as well as experiential knowledge...
In this fantastic video, Dan Olson looks at the grossest parts of the publishing industry; the exploitation, the predatory behavior, the high tolerance of spam by publishing companies, and how grifters push freelance writers and voice...
Type specimens are getting buck wild these days. Here’s The Food Issue, a website by Commercial Type, that’s a tiny magazine and type specimen. But, also: Helena Fitzgerald! Helen Rosner! Robin Sloan! What a great idea for a thing....
Someone asked me for advice about their career a while ago and even though I absolutely do not feel qualified enough to give advice to anyone about this, here goes nothin’: Blog! Blog your heart out! Blog about something you’ve learned,...
I am burrowed in a small cafe with soft music in the background and a warm coffee in hand. The heatwave in the bay area has broken and today I have nothing to do but read and write and read some more. I ought to to update the /newsletter...
I made a lil micro-site for the newsletter I’m kicking off tomorrow morning called How Not To Make A Book. Here is me quoting me: There’s almost too much to care for; the design, paper stock, binding, proofreading, logistics, then—not to...
Back in 2009, Cory Doctorow described how to write like the wind: Researching isn't writing and vice-versa. When you come to a factual matter that you could google in a matter of seconds, don't. Don't give in and look up the length of...