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
Clint Smith writes about the overwhelming tragedy that is the money-bail system here in America, where defendants are required to pay money in order to get out of jail before their trial takes place. These are innocent people treated as...
It begins with a crash; spiraling, hurtling, spinning, dragged in every direction at once. From inside the escape pod you look up and see through the small window at the top, back at the battleship, just at the very moment where it...
Krissy Howard: In 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake tore through northeastern Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami. Together, the events destroyed the country, causing more than $300 billion in damages and resulting in the loss of...
Aaron E. Carroll: Too many view protective measures as all or nothing: Either we do everything, or we might as well do none. That’s wrong. Instead, we need to see that all our behavior adds up. Each decision we make to reduce risk helps....
I find myself longing for something new. When it comes to writing, I mean, and I’m not sure what that might be. For the past year I’ve been beating the same drum—there’s no progress, no sense of momentum or drive in the work. I look back...
Someone gave me some great feedback in the moments when I’m struggling with a design: “Don’t draw the UI, draw the priority instead.” What they meant by this is that I should go away and write a humble list of priorities for every...
My pal Lucy Bellwood just launched a new project: The Right Number is a gentle, noncommercial space where your only job is to be yourself. Upon dialing you’ll be connected to a voicemail box and given a brief prompt. You have three...
Matthias Ott has made some notes about the upcoming leading-trim CSS property which is the best intro I’ve read of this thing so far: The spacing between individual elements of a website and, in particular, the vertical spacing, has been...
Eric Bailey on the radium craze and the harmful effects of applying one technology to everything: Blanket-applying radium to everything created horrific outcomes, some that we’re still being affected by today. Bottles of radium-infused...
The first thought you have about your company is “ugh.” You constantly have to explain what your job is. You make receipts of all the work you’re doing. Everything is an argument, and not the healthy kind. There are too many meetings....
I was about to get my ass kicked. The design critique had barely started and yet I knew that my designs weren’t good enough; I watched as my mentor’s eyes narrowed and then focused into a point the same way that a hawk scans a field from...
This collection of animated book covers from Henning Lederer is fascinating and delightful. This video that collects many of these covers is especially worth studying if you’re into animation: All this has me wondering: what if I take...
Sometimes I forget what the web is capable of. I watch the code and the text and the opinions fly around and it feels like I’ve seen it all. But then there are the other times. The ones where I have an idea, jot it down with Codepen, and...
I’ve been replaying Bioshock Infinite this week on the Switch and two things stand out to me: wow is it incredible that the Switch can even play this thing. I sense my 9 year old self losing his mind thinking that such an enormous and...
After watching the Democratic National Convention last night, and for the first time in 3 years, I felt pangs of genuine hope. Sure, some of the music videos are cheesy and some of the points are a bit repetitive. But the video of the...