Holmes’ patented, cartoon-like approach injects fun into serious stuff, managing to provide an easy-to-understand overview of the Big Mess. Over-simplistic and too cartoon-like for some tastes, Holmes nonetheless provides a visual antidote to an abundance of long, confusing stories about the structure underlying our complex economy – which crashed, it seems to me, because banks and brokers sold the same stuff over and over again in a get-rich pyramid scheme as the nation acquired more and more debt. Simple, huh?
The beauty of the graphic: a visual metaphor that enables you to put big numbers in scale and perspective. Poynter’s Sara Quinn interviews Holmes. Dowload a PDF file of the poster here.
