Still flummoxed by what caused the financial melt down and how? Jonathan Jarvis produced one of the best explanations of the underlying housing bust that spurred the 2009 U.S. credit crisis.
The Crisis of Credit Visualized distills the economic crisis into a short and simple story by giving it form. It is also argues that designers have the ability to see a complex situation, then turn around and communicate it to others. By giving graphic form to the credit crisis, it becomes comprehensible. Not only do economic activities take shape, but new relationships can emerge between these shapes.
