BRILLIANT MINDS

You know you want one

Brilliant Minds celebrates six extraordinary historical inventions. Each one captures an age when ingenuity knew no bounds and practicality was sometimes an afterthought. A tribute to human imagination and the magnificent art of solving problems nobody knew they had.Individual artworks and the complete collection are available for commercial licensing.


THE NIAGARA BATH

SALUTING HAT


CIGARETTE BROLLY

SMOKING MACHINE


STAMP LICKER

AQUATIC VELOCIPEDE


Jon Crocker is a Wigan-based creative whose work spans visual art, graphic design, fictional worlds, storytelling, film history, cultural commentary and satire.His projects include Crimea Street Films, an entirely imagined British film studio with its own films, actors, directors, posters and archives; Midnight Mohair, a visual celebration of Mod culture and Northern Soul; and Costa del Wigan, an irreverent reinvention of his adopted hometown as a glamorous tourist destination.Across these and other collections, Jon combines original concepts, distinctive imagery, invented characters and imaginative narratives, often blurring the boundaries between fact, fiction and affectionate absurdity.


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