After watching the video 45 times, I broke down how I felt about it, in a handy GIF format. So, there you have it. How much does Dennis Allen’s ‘win now’ messaging matter? 4 questions about ...

Everyone loves GIFs. (Though we're always a bit worried we're not pronouncing GIFs correctly.) Now the history animated file format is the subject of a segment on the PBS design show Off Book.

“A successful GIF is one that is shared,” Eppink wrote in an article on the history of GIFs for the Journal of Visual Culture. “Even though individuals process the pixels, communities make ...

If you associate animated GIFs only with the blinking banner ads of yore (by which we mean 2010), you should know that times have changed. This app delivers the expressiveness of a video clip in ...

Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: ...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Graphics Interface Format this month we put together a history of the animated GIF -- in GIF form. In honor of this stalwart of the Internet, we have ...

“[T]o be looped in a GIF, to be put on display as ‘animated’ at the behest of audiences,” as Monica Torres describes for Real Life, is an act with racial history and meaning. These GIFs ...