Thank you for wanting to participate in this project!

Remember that you can't use a computer to create your giraffes!
And you have to make them yourself.

No store bought items or photographs from zoos/safaris will be accepted.
Anything else goes! And you can create as many giraffes as you want!
You can read more about these rules here if you want to.

You can send me your giraffes in several ways:

Upload

(please use this if you can)

Your giraffes won't appear on the website straight away.
I need to approve every giraffe to make sure they're not breaking the rules.

If you have another giraffe, please feel free to upload it now as well:

Woha! Two giraffes? Thank you! Do you have another one?!?

Unfortunately you can only upload three pictures at a time,
but once these are done, you can add three more!

E-mail is optional.
I'll email you a direct link to your giraffe when it's out on the site and when I've reached a million

E-mail

Please try to upload your giraffe before you email it to me.
Click the text right above that says 'Upload'. It's much easier for me and your giraffe will be online sooner! If the upload fails you can send your giraffe to onemilliongiraffes@gmail.com.

Please remember to write your name, age and location somewhere on your drawing or in your email!

Twitter

You can use @1000000giraffes to send a picture to me.
And please tweet about this project, so it spreads around to everyone!

Please remember to write your name, age and location somewhere on your drawing or in your tweet!

Facebook

You can upload your giraffes on my Facebook page and I'll take it from there.
But this is very backwards, you might as well just upload it here.
You should become a fan of the project on Facebook either way!

Please remember to write your name, age and location somewhere on your drawing or in your Facebookpost!

I reserve the right to use all artwork submitted to this project however I want.

blog from behind the giraffes
The University of Amsterdam learns about crowdsourcing
Written on the 16th of December 2009
Anne teaches a new media class at the University of Amsterdam. She used this project as a part of her lectures since it "illustrates our topic and the idea of crowdsourcing very well. On top of that, it actually allows us to collaborate so I thought it would be fun to make it part of my students assignments during class".

If you are interested in the lecture you can find her slides here (in Dutch and English). The giraffes are featured between page 25 and 31. Here's even some photos of the students drawing giraffes as an assignment:




Anne ended up collecting 111 giraffes! You can see all of them here.
Marc: What happened to my contribution? (written on the 1st of January 2009)
Ragnar: So the crowdsourcing students became the source of a pretty big crowd... (written on the 1st of January 2009)
Eline Mangen: Is my hand really a part of the presentation, or is it just something my computer shows me? (written on the 1st of January 2009)
Jayelle: Way-to-go, Anne! (written on the 1st of January 2009)
Ragnar: You see your own hand in Amsterdam? Now there's modern technology for you! ;-) (written on the 1st of January 2009)
One Million Giraffes: @Marc: I don't know. I've uploaded those anne sent me...
@Eline: yup! I believe your hand was on the "frontpage" of the slides... (written on the 1st of January 2009)
Eline Mangen: Omg, that's so awesome! :D (written on the 1st of January 2009)
Anne: I have still a lot of giraffes to scan so it will be even more than 111 ;) Good luck with the project! (written on the 1st of January 2009)
One Million Giraffes: Woha! Even better! Thanks!! (written on the 1st of January 2009)
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Giraffe joke
Why was the giraffe not invited to the party? Because he was a pain in the neck!
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