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
Derecka Purnell: Police couldn’t do what we really needed. They could not heal relationships or provide jobs. We were afraid every time we called. When the cops arrived, I was silenced, threatened with detention, or removed from my home....
“As long as we think abstractly,” writes Chris Hedges in his fantastic and heart-wrenching book War is a force that gives us meaning, “...as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of war our fulfillment [...] we will never...
Here’s something distasteful I've noticed over the past few weeks: instead of folks saying “I am learning and growing”—being honest with their mistakes—a large number of people are just shouting constantly into the void of social media...
When it comes to design systems I don’t have many words of advice. I have opinions and intense anxiety but giving advice without context of the organization, the codebase, the people, is so very hard to do. But if there’s one word of...
The latest album by HAIM, Women in Music Pt.III, has been on infinite repeat for the last couple of days. Their music is like a fantastical broth between PJ Harvey, Shania Twain, and One Little Plane. Also, they happen to be upsettingly...
Back in 2014 I was talking to a chap after a speaking gig in London and I had become the dictionary definition of a big dumb mess. I told him how I hadn’t slept the night before, how I was extremely nervous about the talk (which turned...
At my previous gig, Slack channels were weird. No one would talk about the work; what was good, what was bad, what was difficult, what we could be doing better. Folks kept their work private. So let’s say I was working on a refactoring...
Umm...uhhh...there is an edit of Raiders of the Lost Arc by Steven Soderbergh and it is the single most perfect thing. No greater, more perfectest thing has ever existed. It’s in black and white with the soundtrack from The Social...
Imagine a future made perfect. What would you fix? Think of all the ways our society could be made better, kinder. Well, I think the problem with all these wondrous futures and more perfect worlds is that they often make for...
Okay! Since I mentioned that the Kindle is a punk rock essay machine I’ve started to wonder...what if I gathered a bunch of my favorite posts from Adventures, bundled them up into a Kindle book and donated all the proceeds to charity? It...
Arguments, political pamphlets, essays about civil rights; the longer I look at the Kindle this time around the more I see it as the perfect little punk rock essay machine. Sure, a lot of what I said about the Kindle is still true. But...
I just started reading Ijeoma Oluo’s ever so excellent book So You Want to Talk About Race. Her writing is laser-focused and this bit in particular where Ijeoma compares white supremacy to an abusive relationship jolted me awake: When I...
There’s a line in Close to the Machine where Ellen Ullman is writing about technology and the future, and there’s an image that I haven’t been able to shake in all the years since I read her book: The future. Right again. The new:...
Rachel Sugar: Walking doesn’t improve the taste of coffee, but coffee improves the experience of being in the world. It blunts the harsher edges. Without coffee, there is “public space” and “private space.” With coffee, the whole city is...
Good morning! Today I'm homesick. Although it is most certainly weird to use that word, home, when speaking of the UK so I'm not sure what would be a better an alternative. I just miss it all like hell. I miss dark pubs in the...