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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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...
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...