Nayana Malhotra loves GIFs. Loves them. When she’s not designing new fashions, she’s filling her Tumblr with GIF after GIF. Now, the GIF-loving designer has figured out how to merge the two. Her new ...
If, for some reason, the Graphical Image Format, or GIF, were ever immortalized with a Hollywood biopic, the narration in the trailer might go something like this: “It started as an innovator, became ...
If a picture says a thousand words, then a GIF says a million. Communicating via GIF can be more effective — and hilarious — than words. On Thursday, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the GIF, ...
An installation in the New York Museum of the Moving Image presents contemporary art GIFs in their original format, on the computers used to build them. reading time 4 minutes There’s something about ...
Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after ...
The web's favorite file format just turned 30. Yep, it turns out the GIF is a millennial, too. At the same time, 30 makes the GIF ancient in web years, which feels a bit weird, given that the ...
Giphy, the NY-based search engine and platform for GIFs, has raised $72 million in funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Institutional Venture Partners and China Media Capital. This brings Giphy’s ...
“Wilhite was working at CompuServe in 1987 when he invented the GIF. ‘I saw the format I wanted in my head and then I started programming,’ he told The New York Times in 2013, saying the first image ...