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
For Vanity Fair, Lisa Brennan-Jobs has written about her father, Steve: By then the idea that he’d named the failed computer after me was woven in with my sense of self, even if he did not confirm it, and I used this story to bolster...
I think about this post all about dogmatism by Chris perhaps twice a week: Hardly a day goes by I don’t see a dogmatic statement about the web. I was collecting them for a while, but I won't share them as there is no sense in shaming...
“I am compulsive about that,” Merlin explains of his obsession with punctuality and trying to teach those lessons to his kid: You can’t explain how important it is that if we need to leave the house by 7:30 […] if we made it by 7:31 then...
You can see the climate crisis everywhere, in everything. On the drive down you can see it in the signs that are posted in the dirt by farms on the edge of the freeway: “BUILD DAMS!” they scream. “WE NEED WATER, NOW” another sign begs in...
Over the past week or so I’ve been slowly watching The Vietnam War, a documentary on Netflix by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and it’s just completely, impossibly brilliant. I’m not sure if this has ever happened in war documentaries before...
Ingrid Burrington’s Networks of New York begins with a simple enough question: “How do you see the Internet?” Ingrid then explores just how shortsighted our understanding of that question quite probably is. I’ve heard the distinction...
It’s 2007: I’m sat in the kitchen watching a family friend and her four year old son talk to my mom. Over the course of a few minutes I notice how this kid, Jack, is starting to get bored; his eyes roll into the back of his head and all...
In this non-fiction account of the last five apolayptic scenarios our planet has endured, Peter Brannen writes in lucid detail in The Ends of the World about what led to each of them and, potentially, how we might be entering a new...
Back in 2012 Matt Taibbi wrote this incredible piece about who Mitt Romney is and his revolutionary political aspirations. The whole piece is both infuriating and terrifying: Forget about the Southern strategy, blue versus red, swing...
There, I said it. Of all the engineers I’ve met over the years only one has come close to what that title, full-stack engineer, implies: the ability to easily navigate the back-end and front-end with a senior level of expertise. For the...
Zach Leatherman: We may be trapped in a web of competing formats, open and closed, standardized and proprietary, single vendor controlled and community driven, available for all and tightly held in app stores and behind walled gardens....
Over the past week a lot of friends have shared this story by Anthony Bourdain, supposedly his first published piece, called Don’t Eat Before Reading This and in true Bourdainian style it’s lovely as all hell: I love the sheer weirdness...
I had coffee with an internet friend the other day for the first time and I asked her what she was reading. She immediately started talking about a book set in Texas that she had fallen completely in love with but couldn’t recommend...
I was in a meeting the other day and it dawned on me that it would be much easier to get through it if I was drunk. The conversation was a little too slow, both of us seemed to push and pull our way through the meeting as neither of us...
The other day I read Jenny Odell’s piece about how to do nothing – it’s all about the value of free, public spaces like gardens – and since then I’ve been mulling over this part especially: …those spaces which are not seen as...