Robin Mientjes

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Design ideas and execution.
Type, identity, interaction, information, graphic and typographic design. Writing about creativity and the ideas behind design.
Homepagehttps://veryrobin.me/
Type designhttps://tinytype.co/
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YouTubehttps://youtube.com/@veryrobin
@kai I have given up for now and use Preview, but it’s very limited in its tools.
dear news makers, please spare us with these violent men and their bs speeches and ugly faces, we do not want to hear from them, please report what they do, not their idiotic explainers and lies, deplatform them, is my suggestion
It’s the first proper sunny Friday of the year and I’m feeling in the mood for a cute banger and— oh! Whoop. Here’s one, and that’s me in the music video. From three years ago:
https://youtu.be/dU45oLj9ffU
Gaspard - Må jeg alltid bære min egen kropp [Official Music Video]

YouTube
@w__h_ main puzzle here is conversion into a different format. Otherwise it looks cool and clever.
New gender-neutral greeting dropped

"As for the stuff in your computer that pretends to correct your punctuation or grammar, disable it. These programs are on a pitifully low level of competence; they’ll chop your sentences short and stupidify your writing. Competence is up to you."

— Ursula Le Guin, Steering the Craft

#UrsulaLeGuin #fuckAI

Something outside of the type design scope, but relevant to general design: my short text on tech optimism and a depiction of it that I like. On my ‘new’ blog, the Very Zine. I intend to keep writing, and am inviting others to write as well.

https://www.veryzine.zone/2026/baymax-as-tech-optimism/

@nicksherman @justvanrossum “development” and “release” seem very intuitive to me. Things like “working” and “final” carry a lot of baggage.
@letterror Oh, I will happily keep doing what I do – drawing, and exploring shapes as they are, and exploring concepts as more than just products, and writing about it, and hopefully making sense of it. I’m not discouraged by another identical release, more confused, definitely bored.
@kai Yeah, very possible. People do still steal chair designs outright (how many times have I sat on a fake Eames?), so that part of my metaphor never stopped being relevant. But as a business strategy you do stake your first position as “don’t worry, we’re just like all the others” and, well, that seems deeply uninteresting and not competitive to me.