The New Yorker Embraces the GIF

Vitra goes to Africa, the Indienet, a people's history of coffee and more in our look at the web this week

No matter how you prefer to pronounce it, there’s big news in the GIF world right now. One of the most respected publications for arts and culture, The New Yorker, has done the unexpected and released a digital GIF cover. It might be simple, but the work by animator Christoph Niemann is also beautiful and done with the same class, care and pointed nature as …

Ghostly GIFs

Vitra goes to Africa, the Indienet, a people's history of coffee and more in our look at the web this week

The dead come alive again, thanks to New York-based designer Kevin Weir’s artistic prowess (and hours and hours on Photoshop). Through his project The Flux Machine, he transforms old photos found in the Library of Congress into animated GIFs with a dark twist. These “shortest of stories” have careful pauses for a suspenseful effect—which isn’t commonly found among this medium.

Briefly

Vitra goes to Africa, the Indienet, a people's history of coffee and more in our look at the web this week

To explore the purpose and impact of project creative briefs, founder of brand and design firm Basset & Partners, Tom Bassett, created a short film staring some of the design world’s most formative figures. From Frank Gehry to David Rockwell and Yves Béhar, the 26-minute “Briefly” dives into whether or not the specific piece of paper is in fact a source of inspiration, or just …