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
Nathan Law Kwun Chung wrote this piece about the situation in Hong Kong: A broad range of freedoms, relating to assembly, association, speech, the press, academic research, the electoral process and more, is increasingly under threat in...
Ethan Marcotte’s latest talk is so great and I think he captures the feeling of the whole industy/craft right now. But the part that really stuck out to me is where Ethan argued that: Creating modular components isn’t the primary goal or...
In the Bay Area there’s this very clear distinction folks make between “websites” and “web apps.” Somehow, the thinking goes, if we make a web app then we don’t need to care about accessibility or responsive design. We don’t need to care...
I helped my quarantine pal move out of her apartment today. She’s leaving San Francisco and it was tough yada yada shut up. But as we're packing up her place, I start to make fun of her a bit. “Everything is a story, huh,” I said,...
Reagan Ray made a lovely collection of Jazz-inspired hand-lettering that’s very much worth a look. There’s so many interesting styles on display here!
Newsletters often feel like having to keep up with extracurricular homework. And so a word of advice for publishing a newsletter, blog post, novel, or literally anything: keep it short and keep it sweet. Writing is easy, editing is hard....
Blot makes me angry. It’s so painfully simple to make tiny websites, and the video there shows just how straightforward writing on the web can be instead of the rather blotted and clunky system that I’m working with today. I’m using...
Robin Marty was interviewed by Bridget Read about the potential of losing Roe v. Wade and how we can fight it. But this part here is what caught my attention: Reproductive rights are never going to be a priority. Never look at federal...
We were making jokes in my kitchen when we heard the news. We saw the news roll in, gasped as we saw the back and forth on Twitter. We watched the outpouring of love begin, as Vote Save America raised more than $10 million in just a few...
When it comes to design and development I always try to be the hero. I rush into the fray, don’t really understand the problem clearly, and end up trying to reinvent the wheel. But all this leads to is frustration and deadends. When...
Here’s a weird bug. The other day I shipped a toggle that sits in the top right of the nav that lets you change the theme of this here website. I want to eventually copy what Jeremy’s built on his website where there’s all sorts of buck...
For the last couple of months I’ve wondered why there isn’t a CSS-Tricks for politics. Why does every conversation about this subject stress me the fuck out and why can’t I find a place that is hopeful and consistent but isn’t just...
The next 53 days are the most important of our lives. For the pandemic, for civil rights, for ending the fillibuster and fighting the climate crisis, for sane gun control, for providing universal health care to everyone, for tax reform,...
The pandemic has made a lot of things harder and so instead of setting up big meetings full of people to discuss design ideas, what I’m trying this week is something new: design vlogs. I’ve been making videos of myself talking through a...
Baths released a new album called Pop Music / False B-Sides II and I’ve been listening to it non-stop this week. My favorite song at the moment is Sex because the moment I hit play it drags me screaming back to my college dorm when I...