The flag that Americans will celebrate for Flag Day on Tuesday has a certain neatness to it: complementing the 13 stripes for the 13 original states, there are nine orderly rows of stars, totaling 50.

The humble flag has a complex history. Every nation’s standard is a window into its past, and their development over time visual stories of revolution – of cultural, religious and geographical change.

Off Book explores the web's most iconic image format: the animated gif. GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of purposes, ...

If I had to explain the Internet to an E.T., I’d call up a bunch of animated GIFs. They’re the purest distillation of the web, its unofficial universal language. If I had to explain the Internet to an ...