Joshua Renton

Selected Works 26

Selected works, 2023 to 2026. Scanned from the printed portfolio.

Cover of Selected Works 2026 by Joshua Renton: off-white paper with the in vivo eye mark at top left and the name at bottom right.
Selected Works (2026)
burner by in vivo: machined aluminum Apple Watch enclosures in raw, anodized and white finishes, one with a speaker grille, scattered across a dark flatbed scan.
burner (2026)
A translucent burner sheet laid over the scattered aluminum enclosures, so both pages read through each other.
burner (2026)
burner (2026): a hardcoat anodized aluminum burner holding an Apple Watch with an iridescent screen, gripped in a black and red work glove against black.
burner (2026)Hardcoat anodized aluminum
burner (2026) technical sheet: orthographic and exploded drawings of a CNC-machined aluminum enclosure for Apple Watch, two parts held by N52 magnets, 24 prototypes over sixteen months.
burner (2026)Cotton letter, inkjet
The burner drawing sheet printed on translucent paper, laid over the grid of prototype iterations.
burner (2024-26)
burner (2024-26): a grid of prototype iterations in black, white, gold and raw aluminum, showing changes in form, fit, features and finish.
burner (2024-26)Selected iterations
burner packaging (2025): the enclosure vacuum sealed with a muslin pouch, carabiner loop, tolerance pads and insert card, with a thermally printed label.
packaging (2025)Stamp, thermal printer
grip (2026): a one of one CNC-machined 6061 aluminum attachment for the burner 49mm, mounted on its screw system, with four apertures that index the hand to the device.
grip (2026)Anodized aluminum, 1/1
in vivo campaign (2026) on 35mm film: a woman raising a burner to her eye on a city street, a car lit red inside at night, and a couple on a white bed with a phone set aside.
Campaign (2026)Portra 135, Contax G2
grills (2026) drawing sheet: a six-tooth grill drawn from several views, with braille that spells in vivo.
grills (2026)Cotton letter, inkjet
The grills drawing printed on translucent paper, laid over the photographs of the silver casts.
grills (2026)
grills (2026): a silver grill shown top to bottom as the finished cast on the impression, the cast alone, an FDM print, a 3D scan, the dental impression and braille. Six teeth, designed around a permanent retainer, readable only by the wearer.
grills (2026)Sterling silver
Seat for my Father (2023): a stool built by hand from reclaimed sycamore and beeswax, photographed standing in dry grass.
Seat for my Father (2023)Reclaimed sycamore, beeswax, hand fabricated
Seat for my Father (2023): the sycamore seat shown at eight rotations from 0 to 360 degrees, with joinery details. Its legs wedge through the seat like a rudder through a transom, with no screws or glue in the visible joinery.
Seat for my Father (2023)
geta (2024): resin-printed soles for a restudied Japanese geta in four forms, labeled comfort, tradition, balance and elegance, below a foot in profile.
geta (2024)Resin print, magnets
The geta sole sheet printed on translucent paper, laid over the sketches and early prints.
geta (2024)
geta (2024): pen sketches of the traditional two-tooth geta restudied, with three interchangeable soles swapped by magnet, and the earliest prints held in a soft ergonomic shell.
geta (2024)Resin print, magnets
igaak (2023): snow goggles after the Inuit form, shaped by hand from a pine block with a balsa slit insert, shown beside reference Inuit and Yupik igaak.
igaak (2023)Pine, balsa, hand fabricated
Sea Ranch (2023-24): structural studies for a chapel at Sea Ranch, California, with a model cast in brass and sections and site drawings in pen.
Sea Ranch (2023-24)Pen, brass, resin print
Sea Ranch sections printed on translucent paper, laid over the brass model studies.
Sea Ranch (2023-24)
Sea Ranch (2023-24): joinery models in redwood, hand fabricated and charred with a torch, one large crossing beam above three smaller joints.
Sea Ranch (2023-24)Redwood, hand fabricated, torch
Sea Ranch (2023-24): section models cut from serpentine marble with a masonry saw, showing the chapel's structural relationship to its site.
Sea Ranch (2023-24)Serpentine marble, masonry saw