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
Katy wrote about how to detect 404s with Sentry: her team set up an alert to shout at them when more than 10 users see the same 404 path in a week. That's pretty neat! Katy writes: Since introducing Sentry to our 404 page, nearly two...
I loved this episode of the Rework podcast about the release of HEY World. Here’s how it works: once you've signed up for a HEY email account you can then send an email to world@hey.com. Your message will become a webpage (like a blog...
Louche is a striking typeface and John Boardley has the scoop: In 2019, Joona graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag with a Masters in Type Design. It was during the course that the idea for Louche was born. Joona wondered...
I’m obsessed with work. It’s the first thing I wake up with in the morning and it’s the last thing I think of before I fall asleep. Well, “sleep” wouldn’t be fair because it’s a shattered, partial, broken half-trance that I slip into...
So I was wrong about that piece by Jason Farago — it's definitely not inspired by Newsletters at all. Just a quick search for his other pieces show one from November 2020 and earlier. So I'm not an inspiration, huh? Outrageous! Jokin’...
This is a shockingly beautiful thing by Jason Farago about art and power. Everything about this piece is a delight: the design of the site, the looking-closely-until-it-hurts, the pace and momentum of the writing. Jason writes about art...
Lucy wrote a great piece about the good days: On the good days, everything feels connected—a giant wall of conspiracy string. But on the bad days, every gesture and thought sits in isolation. It’s like I’m looking at the same board, but...
Alberto Manguel in The Library at Night: One of the lost plays of Sophocles is The Loves of Achilles, copies of which must have perished one after another, century after century, destroyed in pillaging and fires or excluded from library...
Patterned is great. It's an iOS light puzzle game with soft piano in the background which makes it the perfect thing to play in bed. I've watched Celine play it the last few nights and it's so dang soothing. (This is an endorsement of...
I’m late to the party here but this week I discovered that iA Writer has a feature they call Style Check which suggests superfluous words to remove: It’s not like any of the existing grammar checkers or functions. There is no AI, it is...
Okay, hear me out: what if I wrote a book in public? And—what if—I wrote about the process of writing/designing/building it each week in a newsletter. I’d have no idea where I was going with it, or what the book could possibly be, and...
A fabulous piece about the videogame box design of Hock Wah Yeo. Phil Salvador writes: When Yeo was making packaging for a game, the way he thought about it, he was giving the game a physical form. Software is “intangible,” he explained,...
Jesse Frederik: I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought: but what is it then, for God’s sake, this whole blockchain thing? And what’s so terribly revolutionary about it? What problem does it solve? That’s why I wrote this article. I...
I haven’t read a book all year. During the course of the pandemic I haven’t been able to focus enough to get through anything longer than a blog post or a newsletter. Typically I’ll start reading something, the novelty will wear off, and...