The Silicon Heartland Is Running Out of Homes

From a graphic which went through several iterations, to one which was... well, one and done. After creating the previous graphic at Midstory, one of the many new graphics assigned to me was this one, for a story on how the Midwest's house prices have always been a draw in, but due to a variety of factors, cracks in them affordibility are starting to show. Ruth Chang, the head of graphics, gave me some assets and an idea in order to get me started, and in a single afternoon, I managed to create this imagery, where buildings are various computer parts and cars are computer mice. It was the only graphic at Midstory during my internship which managed to get approved on the very first version, and even I'm blown away with how it came out at the end of the day.