A Well-Designed Budget

Where do our taxes go? The budget submitted by the president every February is publicly available, but why sift through thousands of pages of government documents, when a designer can create a comprehensive information graphic to explain it all? Designer Jess Bachman created "Death and Taxes," a 6-square-foot infographic that organizes the budget into an amazing bubble diagram (available as a poster and online). Agencies are assigned their official seals and scaled according to the program's annual expense. A percentage change is also given in spending from the previous year--helpful in understanding our last president's priorities. Bachman has her work set out for her for the 2010 budget design.