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.
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Today I’m struggling with context-switching as I’m hopping wildly between front-end development to visual design and icon alignment back to copywriting and then user research. It’s a lot to juggle and today is one of those days where I...
This website is truly remarkable; it’s a vast archive of photographs that were taken in NYC throughout the 1940s but each picture has been geotagged—so you can click anywhere on the map and jump straight to that location. Make sure to...
The other day I faffed about with stacked cards on the web and came up with a somewhat interesting demo that I then wrote about for CSS-Tricks. Basically the jist is that position sticky is one of those CSS kickflips that is constantly...
For more than a week I’ve had a tab open just for Aglet Mono from XYZ Type and I can’t seem close it. And in a world overrun by ehhhhh lookin’ monospace fonts, I think this one stands up and has something new to say. It has all the oomph...
Clint Smith drove to Talbot County, Maryland—the hometown of Frederick Douglass—and he wrote this lovely and heartbreaking piece about the trip. He notes that Douglass feared that the Civil War would be used as propaganda, that the...
Matt Webb: My sense is that RSS is having a mini resurgence. People are getting wary of the social media platforms and their rapacious appetite for data. We’re getting fatigued from notifications; our inboxes are overflowing. And people...
“Republicans are just better at the economy,” he said as I went down—the gunfire and explosions rattling all around me. It took me one whole beat but I realized that—whilst I was watching my pal-who-has-disagreeable-politics kill...
I’m sat in my kitchen listening to President Obama’s eulogy for John Lewis and absolutely not crying: We have to translate our passion and our causes into laws [...] like John we have to fight even harder for the most powerful tool we...
For my birthday I played a game with some pals where, via Discord, we streamed one of us opening up Google Maps and walking to highschool via street view. It was extremely adorable and we started telling each other stories about these...
John Lewis wrote this essay to be read on the day of his funeral: When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to...
It wasn’t just attacking our bodies. Instead, the pandemic had found a weakness in the unbreakable social bonds that we share with one another. Our need to hold someone, to hug them, to be close to another person, anyone, even a...
This new ebook-esque Gameboy-cartridge playin’ synthesizer called Analogue Pocket looks nifty. I like the design of the site here because it squares up neatly with my theory that the best websites are in fact secret essays. And I also...
I somehow stumbled upon a piece this morning called Mourning a Patriot Whose Politics You Hate by Jon Lovett. It’s written just after the death of Senator John McCain in August of 2018 and it’s about how although Jon disagrees with...
I thought I understood racist housing policy in America. I knew about redlining and I knew about how freeways were used to cut portions of cities into ghettos. But I didn’t fully understand the sheer overwhelming scale of segregation or...
Sometimes I worry that I don’t have the intellectual or creative capacity for design. I guess I’ve spent enough time working as a designer at this point that I can tell if something is good or not. When it’s bad I get uncomfortable and I...