The emergence of the animated GIF over the last few years has made short visual loops a regular part of our media diet, but the phenomenon is not an entirely new one. As Chris Baraniuk points out in ...

While internet users are pretty divided on how to pronounce the word “gif” — some say it like the peanut butter brand Jif, while others pronounce it like the first part of the word “gift” — most can ...

This article was co-published with Source. As visual journalists, one of our central responsibilities is to inform people. We do this in lots of ways. One technique I think we have only just begun to ...

I’ve struggled with something seemingly so simple for many, many years — creating a GIF. A GIF is usually made by taking a ...