Randy Krum

Randy Krum is currently President of InfoNewt, an infographic design and visual consulting company.  InfoNewt works with clients to develop visual communications and strategies to reach their target audiences.  These are designed for use in presentations, social media, training and print.

Designer of data visualizations and infographics for internal uses or viral sharing in social media. Working with companies to visualize marketing strategies, consumer experiences, qualitative and quantitative research, product differentiation, website statistics, budgets, timelines and internal processes.

Speaker to conferences and corporate meetings on topics about effective infographics, visual thinking, data visualization methods, infographic design, infographics for SEO, internal visual communication and infographic release strategies.

Consultant with clients for successful release of infographics online including building a landing page, social sharing links, company methods of distribution, involving employees, reaching key influences and tracking results.

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Randy is the author of the Cool Infographics blog that highlights some of the best examples of data visualizations and infographics found in magazines, newspapers and on the Internet.

The Cool Infographics blog has quickly grown to be one of the top sites in the information design industry.  With an average over 5,000 visitors per day and over 600,000 page views per month, the site has reached a Google Page Rank of 6/10.

Randy's first book was released in October 2013.  Titled Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design, the book covers all aspects of designing and using infographics.

This innovative guide prepares you to create compelling infographics for online marketing, business reports, posters, presentations, and even design your own infographic resume.

Featuring over 100 infographic examples from great designers all over the world, this book helps you communicate your message by making your information stand out.  Your infographics will get noticed and shared by your audience.

InfoNewt is Randy's infographics and data visualization design company focused on improving communication with data.   InfoNewt focuses on both Marketing infographics (online viral designs) and Internal infographics (presentations and confidential data) by using innovative data visualization techniques and infographic designs. For big and small companies, InfoNewt can suggest infographic design styles, gather the data, analyze the information, manage outside design resources, produce the final infographic designs and help with your final online Infographic Release Strategy.

Randy was interviewed by the Society of News Design (SND) in 2007 and the interview was published in the Design Journal 105 Winter 2007 issue, a magazine published for SND members.

Randy was interviewed for the Infographics feature article in Issue #73 of Advanced Photoshop magazine in August 2010.

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