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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I have news! This week I found out that my visa has been approved and so now I’m ready to start work at the ever-so-excellent Sentry. My first day will be at the end of the month and I couldn’t be more excited; the team is fabulous, the...
It begins with sticky notes: everyone in the room has been given five minutes, maybe ten, to scribble their ideas down, a few minutes more tacking them up on the wall, and then talking through each one—an example might be a suggestion...
To spread out the anxiety a bit during the Quarantimes, I’ve transformed my apartment into the Hyperbolic Time Chamber; I picked up an exercise bike and I’ve started to treat my health more seriously. I also noticed that throwing all...
Not much to report today: San Francisco is intermittently speckled with rain and the tree outside my bedroom window sways from side to side whilst I pretend to do useful things with my keyboard. All is quiet here in the quarantine. But...
For some reason today I find myself scouring through the archives of Grilli Type and I particularly love the catalogue page where they show a list of every family available: It’s a simple layout without any flair, but dang I just want to...
I ravaged this collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman called Norse Mythology; it reminds me of Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath and brought me back to replaying the latest installment in the God of War series. Gaiman collects some of the...
I adore this video all about the past, present, and future of copyright by Tom Scott. He looks at how our legal system no longer makes any sense, as today we don’t need a big publishing company to distribute our work to millions of...
From Alice Bartlett’s blog, weak notes, where she quotes from an entry of Feminist Friday: This week my thoughts have particularly turned to parents, and to parents who are working from home while their kids are under their feet and...
My pal Jez Burrows has started a newsletter called Dept. of Enthusiasm and I think everyone should sign up. Why? Well, first off—rude. Second, JB is one of my favorite people in the world but he also happens to be one of my favorite...
I tried to avoid writing about it. To write over it, even; to skip, hop, and dance around the topic so that I can focus on sharing lovely things. Everything useful and everything awful has already been said about the event. But dammit, I...
Whenever I’m nervous or upset I tend to pull up my sleeves and throw myself at the ol’ website. Out of pure anxiety I’ll change the fonts over an evening of frantic typing, or I’ll bump up the font size with a glass of wine. Over a...
I wrote a piece for CSS Tricks the other day about why the CSS language is frustrating: I reckon the biggest issue that engineers face — and the reason why they find it all so dang frustrating — is that CSS forces you to face the...
Kicks Condor: It seems that everything is white and blue in the present day. We’ve settled on these neutral colors, in case we need to sell it all. The old garish animated construction cones and embedded MIDI files are relegated to...
Season 3 landed on Netflix yesterday and it’s one of the very few shows that I’ll drop everything for, although I guess that can be said for every Warren Ellis project. That’s because—in classic Ellisian fashion—this season is like a...
The other day I mentioned that I might not be taking writing seriously enough and then, in a delightfully bloggish way, Robin Sloan riffed on this idea. He published his own thoughts about writing and lightness and this part stuck out to...