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 love what Jeremy has to say here about frameworks and the web: I’ve come to believe that the goal of any good framework should be to make itself unnecessary ...and how that ultimately relates to the AMP project: If the AMP project...
Here’s a note I made in the most recent CSS-Tricks Newsletter which, yes, you absolutely should sign up to as quickly as humanly possible. We take the latest and greatest news from the web design community and deliver it straight to your...
If you want to be a good writer then you can’t worry about the numbers. The stats, the dashboards, the faves, likes, hearts and yes, even the claps, they all lead to madness and, worst of all in my opinion, bad writing. To become a good...
I wrote a quick thing the other day for CSS-Tricks all about the backdrop-filter CSS property which, although not particularly well supported today, highlights just how powerful CSS is becoming. backdrop-filter allows us to add a filter...
I love this piece by Chappell Ellison so much; she looks at design criticism from a different point of view: Universities teach you how to give criticism. They’ve been doing it for centuries. They supply all sorts of texts so that you...
A wonderful new piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye West, Michael Jackson, and celebrity: ...[Kanye] is a god, though one born of a different time and a different need. Jackson rose in the last days of enigma and wonder; West, in an...
I took a little time off last week and for a couple of days I headed up to Oregon on my bike. Together we drove through swooping valleys and up into snow-capped mountains, around twisty rock faces and great empty plains; every moment was...
For years I lived happily without a Facebook account and it was only in 2016 that I finally signed up after wanting to experiment more with Messenger for an upcoming hiking trip with some friends. Recently though I’ve considered leaving...
I got to reading this excellent post called How to Make a Book the other day and it’s a collection of advice from writers and novelists about how to get started with a book of your own: A book can be inspired by nearly anything: a...
David Foster Wallace wrote a wonderful piece on the campaign trail of John McCain back in 2000. He describes the way that we’ve been hurt by politics and how that creates a sense of listlessness and ennui: It’s ultimately just about that...
First you notice the city. San Francisco from 30,000 feet is a tiny holdout at the very tip of a cloudy peninsula. As you begin to descend you’ll see bridges and ocean, mountains and hills, as well as a patchwork quilt of skyscrapers at...
Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath is a collection of stories that I’ve been utterly obsessed with over the last couple of weeks. Although it’s a small book, I’ve been ever so slowly chewing on each and every story because I don’t want it to end....
Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem is one of the strangest things I’ve ever read. It’s a sci-fi novel set during the throes of the Cultural Revolution and focuses on a Chinese researcher who makes contact with an alien civilization. It’s the...
Earlier today I wrote a quick review for Adventures all about Jez Burrows’ new book Dictionary Stories. It’s a lovely book and I hope my review cajoles, hood winks and tricks you into picking up a copy. Here’s a quick snippet from the...
Of all the things my father tried to introduce me to, only one thing has ever stuck. There was no David Bowie or Lou Reed LP, and there was no Scotland, Spain or trip to northern France that could seduce me. Neither was there a sip of...