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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The story of the GIF, which is now 25 years old, is told in this stop-motion video. A Short History of the Gif | Moving the Still from LEGS MEDIA on Vimeo.

GIFs are inescapable, infiltrating almost every way we communicate in 2017. And now, with a new series from GIPHY, the world can choose from a much more inclusive array of options. Timed with Black ...

Last week, the family of the man who invented the GIF, Stephen Wilhite, announced that he had passed away at the age of 74 due to complications from COVID-19. While he claimed to have “never got 1 ...

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 ...