GIFs as Powerful Storytelling Medium

Gifs are an underated and underused educational and storytelling medium, snippets from videos are a tacky, hectic and distracting way to use gifs. Custom gifs, designed to seamlessly loop, without the eye noticing where it starts or ends can be incredibly elegant and compelling.

This is one the coolest gifs I’ve seen, it is from the New York Times and shows just how stunning and complex gifs can be:

It really set the tone for a great article:

Brazil’s Olympic Catastrophe

I’d forgotten about his GIF, another work of art from the NY times:

A Confession of Liberal Intolerance

Another great gif, again from the NYtimes, is a visual metaphor for political bias:

The Liberal Blind Spot

This article on ‘Push Polling’ featured a great gif:

Push Polls, Defined