Karl Gude is the former Director of Information Graphics at Newsweek magazine and at The Associated Press. After a decade at Newsweek, during which he covered a wide range of stories from the how to plant flowers in your garden so that they bloom throughout the day to the World Trade Center attack, Karl moved into academia to teach art and visual storytelling at Michigan State University. 

Karl is a visual storyteller, artist and writer who consults with groups ranging from PR firms to the governmental agencies (like the CIA) to help them create understandable information graphics. He also writes a regular column for the Huffington Post has presented at three TED-x talks and given a pair of talks at South-by-Southwest (SXSW), the technology conference in Austin, Texas, on the Power of Visual Storytelling.