2023 Competition Winners - Suggest a name for our new merchandise store!

Huge thanks to everyone who sent in name suggestions for our new merchandise store. We had over 900 entries ranging from the creative and comedic (and Barry-the-Bear focused!) to many thoughtful and inspiring entries harking back to the University’s history, motto and Indigenous connections.

Here are some of our favourites:

Myunimelb Merch

• “Invokes a sense of belonging for University of Melbourne students and alumni. It reinforces a personalised connection to the University, emphasising that the merchandise store is not just a generic shop but a place where individuals can find items that represent their unique experiences and pride in their alma mater.”

Laude

• “As the third word on the University logo's slogan, it means 'praise' in Latin. But who looks closely at the logo? In my opinion - a neat, subtle reference.”

Noon Gudgin

• “'Noon Gudgin' stands for 'thank you' in Woi Worrung. It signifies our irrevocable connection to our Aboriginal heritage.” 

Shop1853

• “1853 is the year the University was founded, so including reference to that year will be a conversation starter for people attending the shop and is easily memorable and fits as a URL as well.”

Barry's UniVerse

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Congratulations to all our prize winners.

$500 gift card

• Stephanie Youil

$100 voucher to Merchandise Shop

• Matthew Mack
• Sanjay Ravichandran
• Evan Lloyd
• Aastha Das

2021 Winner Quynh Huong Duong - Greeting Card Competition

Theme: Campus dreaming

‘My Universe’, digital painting on Procreate. Quynh Huong Duong, First Year Bachelor of Arts

For much of the last two years University of Melbourne students, academics, staff and visitors have been dreaming of getting back together to study and work.

When we asked students to visualise their dreams of campus life Quynh Huong Duong, who comes to the University from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, responded with a digital painting she titled ‘My Universe’. Inspired by her thoughts on entering the Parkville campus for the first time, Quynh says she was mesmerized by how ethereal it was and combined different elements of buildings she immediately fell in love with to exemplify a perfect place to relax, hang out and study.

2019 Winner Sze Yat Yu (Sophia) - Greeting Card Competition

Theme: The world's contracted thus

‘Intertwine of Place and Time’

Design by Sze Yat Yu (Sophia), First Year Bachelor of Arts

We asked our students to design a greeting card that reflects the unique perspectives of the University of Melbourne’s iconic buildings. Sophia Sze’s interpretation perfectly answered the design brief and strikingly captures what makes the University such a special place to live, work and study.

The design theme was inspired by The Sun Rising, John Donne’s iconic Elizabethan love poem to his mistress: “In that the world’s contracted thus.

To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.

Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;

This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.”

For Sophia, The world’s contracted thus was interpreted on multiple levels. The Old Arts building (with clock tower and arch) rises above the modern city skyline, with other iconic University locations illustrated as a contractedworld within, depicting an intertwine in time.