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 decided ...

Welcome to part four 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: 1997–2008”, ...

Music History in GIFs is run by Joshua Carrafa, a 29-year-old GIF artist based in Brooklyn, who creates original 8-bit animations using Photoshop to commemorate iconic dates in rock & roll. He’s no ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Music History in GIFs is a Tumblr that does exactly what you’d expect, providing short, animated snippets of ...

Steve Wilhite, inventor of the graphics interchange format, also known as GIF, died this month at the age of 74. Animated or not, GIFs may now be a common, free feature of the internet, but the tech ...

Just two months before MTV’s Video Music Awards, the network was in a bind. A photographer scheduled to shoot One Direction to promote the big event had canceled due to passport issues. A call was ...

Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF, died this month. Artist and curator Jason Eppink recounts the tale of the technology behind the animated internet graphic. Steve Wilhite, inventor of the graphics ...

The period from 2006 to 2010 was marked by the rise of self-started social networks. Artists were sharing GIFs on Myspace before many migrated to their own collaboratively run blogs. These sites ...