written March 25th, 2009 · 1 comment

Planet Money started a conversation here about who to blame for the financial crisis, and I just listened to this great podcast from them called Pointing Fingers. All of this inspired me to do a few collages illustrating the outrage we are all feeling and the inner pull to want to blame someone, anyone for this mess. But would it really be possible and would it help our misery? And how would this solve our problem?

Here is the most final design so far.

and some sketches…

 I wanted to visualize how vicious and possibly meaningless the blame game can be (hence the dog snarl) and use strong colors, like red and black to set the mood.