Teachers looking for ways to convince their students that math isn’t a boring slog have a convincing new set of visuals: GIF makers are using mathematics to craft hypnotic moving images. Even outside ...

The massive adoption of smartphones is likely contributing to the shift toward visual communication. While the survey commissioned by Tenor found that people are using emojis, stickers and GIFs to ...

According to Steve Wilhite, who invented the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) in 1987 for CompuServe, it’s “jif,” like the peanut butter (and like “gym” and “gem” and “Geoff”), not a hard “g” (like ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Antony Funnell: I want to start with a clarification. Hello, Antony Funnell here, welcome to Future ...

Emojis, memes and gifs: you may text with them on a daily basis, but did you know you can also use them in your reporting to boost engagement? These newer forms of visual journalism can help amplify ...

If you’re anything like us, you’ve probably been spending the last few days fiddling about with inFAMOUS: Second Son’s recently implemented picture mode in order to create magnificent artistic ...

Tim Highfield: The GIF sits somewhere between other visual, social web based communication like emoji and video and the very personal expressions of selfies and the very irreverent kind of engagements ...