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Swinburne Mascot Design Competition

How to submit your design

Entering the competition is easy – just follow these steps to submit your design before 5:00PM by Friday 31 October 2025

  1. Develop your design in line with this design brief, you can do this individually or in a team (sharing the prize).

  2. Your design can be hand or computer-drawn, in any media you prefer.

  3. Remember, the winning design will be made into something that can be worn by a person, so make sure it is practical for someone to wear and to be able to move.

  4. Name your newly designed mascot.

  5. Add some comments that reflect on why you have created your design and how you believe it reflects the design brief. Include any notes that may help the design be created and brought to life.

  6. Ensure your name and the names of your team members (if a team entry), email addresses, and ID number(s) are included with the submitted design.

  7. Save your design as a .pdf or .png file.

Design the New Swinburne Mascot

Show your creativity. Win $5,000. Shape Swinburne’s identity.

 

Calling all creatives! Swinburne is on the lookout for a brand-new mascot – and it could be your design that becomes the face of Swinburne at major events for years to come.

 

As we celebrate the newly formed student-led Swinburne Student Association, we invite students, staff and alumni to design a mascot that reflects the diversity, energy and innovation of our university community.

 

Whether cheering at sporting events, representing us nationally, or making appearances across campus – this mascot will be a unifying figure for students and staff alike.

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The Theme

"People and technology working together for a better world"

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Your design should reflect the university’s commitment to improving the world by bringing people and technology together. Think of aspiring personal interests and newly developed passions that culminate in the nirvana of being paid to do what you love.

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Thought starters for a design that invokes the possibilities available at Swinburne could include:

A mascot that reflects how science and health disciplines can create sporting achievements on the international stage that inspire others to achieve greatness.

A mascot that reflects how innovation in Artificial Intelligence enables film, television and media to create entertainment that educates and inspires the world.

A mascot that reflects how science, engineering and aviation can unite the world in the exploration of space.

A mascot that exemplifies the ideal combination of science, law, and design to create sustainable transportation systems and fuels.

A mascot that reflects driving the eradication of world inequality and hunger through sustainable and free health and food solutions.

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Mascot Submission Form

Submit your design before 5:00PM by Friday 31 October 2025!

Entrant Details

I am:
Swinburne Staff
Swinburne Student
Swinburne Alumni
Are you submitting as an individual or a team?
Individual
Team

If a team submission is selected and wins, the $5,000 prize will be evenly split among all listed team members. Only team members listed in this submission form will be eligible for the prize.

Terms and Conditions 

Ts & Cs UPDATE (10/10/25): Please be advised that only one submission per person (either as a team member or individual) is permitted within the competition. 

  1. This competition is facilitated by Swinburne Student Association with the support of Swinburne University of Technology

  2. The theme of the design competition is to design a new mascot that depicts the collaborative and innovative focus of Swinburne’s new strategy (of quantum leaps), new Student Association, and the stated goal of ‘connecting people and technology for a better world’.

  3. Main Prize: Design award for best design artwork (One available)

  4. Entries can be any medium and as creative as you like, as long as they do not offend or vilify anyone – inclusivity and community is key! Create your work individually or with a group of mates.

  5. The competition will open at 00:00 (midnight) AEDT on 29 September. The competition will close at 17:00 AEDT on 31 October 2025. Entries received outside of this time will not be considered. 

  6. One submission per person (either as a team member or individual) is permitted within the competition. 

  7. Entrants must agree with the Terms and Conditions at the time of entry. 

  8. Entry is open to all current and former Swinburne University students as well as staff from Swinburne University and affiliated organisations registered with (and acknowledged by) Swinburne. Swinburne reserves the right to request proof of entrants' affiliation as a student, staff or alumni. Entrants aged under 18 years must seek parental/carer permission before submitting their entry. By entering, it is assumed parental/carer permission has been sought and the parent/carer agrees with the Terms and Conditions outlined in this document.

  9. The entrant affirms that the submission (and any part thereof) is their own work and they own the copyright to their artwork. 

  10. Winner will be named following the competition.

  11. Prize for the winner will be $5,000 Australian Dollars transferred to the winner, subject to completing relevant declarations as well as transfer of ownership of original works.

  12. Designs accepted in any medium if they can be photographed and printed. Preferred file type is PDF or PNG. For non-digital mediums, please photograph and send as JPG or PNG. Please note the artwork may need to be made available for reshooting depending on quality of image supplied.

  13. Entrants must provide the following with their entry:  

    1. Full name 

    2. Swinburne Student ID number (or staff ID) if applicable

    3. Email address

    4. Design file

  14. A panel of judges has been selected to decide the winner. The panel includes:

    1.  Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Pascale Quester

    2. Director of Student Experience, Ian Thomson

    3. CEO Swinburne Student Association, Josh Gilligan

    4. President Swinburne Student Association, Sanara Galhenage

  15. The judges' decision is final. 

  16. The judges reserve the right to not select any entry if none of the entries are considered suitable to represent Swinburne University as a mascot.

  17. The judges reserve the right to select a preferred design without having to use the proposed name.

  18. If no entries are deemed suitable the University and Student Association will work together to create an alternate approach to selecting a new mascot.

  19. Swinburne reserves the right to remove any entry that does not comply with the Terms and Conditions in any way or any entry that is deemed offensive, derogatory or racist. 

  20. The winner/s will be contacted by email and publicly announced via social media channels by 01 December 2025.   

  21. Winning design will be made into a prototype to be displayed for students in late 2025.

  22. The Student Association reserves the right to amend the chosen design to enable the design to be created and used.

  23. The winner will not be entitled to any additional compensation or royalties from future use, reproduction, or modification of the mascot design beyond the stated cash prize of $5,000.

  24. Entrants agree to indemnify Swinburne Student Association Limited (SSA) and Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) against any third-party claims of any breach of intellectual property law (including but not limited to copyright and moral rights) in relation to their submission.

  25. Upon selection, the winner must submit ownership and copyright declarations to transfer all intellectual property rights of the winning design to SUT.

22. Entries must be submitted via email at sboard@swin.edu.au or via the website at https://www.swinburnestudentassociation.com.au/swinburne-mascot   

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