'The New Yorker' Does Its First GIF Cover — mashable.com

"Classy." "Lovely and understated." "So beautiful it'll make you cry." Those were some of the early reviews of The New Yorker's magazine cover this week. It's certainly not the first time a New Yorker cover has been described as "beautiful," but the difference is that this time the cover is a GIF. The New Yorker, a bastion for arts, culture and long-form storytelling, unveiled the first animated cover on Monday on its website as well as on its mobile applications, but not in print. True to form, the publication resisted the temptation to go too far off into the Internet's frivolous side — the many dancing babies, loops of Homer Simpson backing up his car, GIFs of the feline persuasion — and stuck with something a bit more sophisticated. Something that calls back to the past. Something simple.

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