Hoping to kick off the 2021-2022 school year back at SC&I with a new fall hoodie, hat, or tote bag? Searching for the perfect holiday gifts for your favorite SC&I students, alumni, and supporters? 

Shop at the just opened SC&I Online Store. Packed with exciting never-seen-before SC&I-branded merchandise, all of the items are designed to show your SC&I pride. 

Shopping at the SC&I store will also enable you to support the school, because a percentage of each order will be contributed to the SC&I Academic Excellence Fund. This fund provides vital program support, funding for new initiatives and support for pressing school needs to ensure we provide the highest-quality teaching and learning environment.

SC&I has teamed up with All Colors, a woman-owned, family-run business located just over “the banks” of the Raritan River in Highland Park, to stock the SC&I store with a variety of items for everyone, even the new baby in the family. 

While the school has stocked giveaways for years, these items are used mostly for events and conferences. This is the first time SC&I-branded merchandise has been available to purchase.

Many of the SC&I logos featured on the store’s merchandise were designed by SC&I Graphic Design Intern, Sebastian Lijo, who is a senior at the Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts. 

Lijo, who has been an intern at SC&I since January 2020, the second semester of his sophomore year, said he originally created the circle logo that appears on the store website for Rutgers Day tee shirts. The store also features merchandise with the Rolling Stone magazine inspired logo Lijo created for Rutgers Day tee shirts the following year. 

While it’s fully stocked, The Rutgers SC&I school store is still missing something: a name. To address this, SC&I will host a contest on social media inviting currently enrolled SC&I undergraduate and graduate students to help name the store. 

“I was really excited to work on these projects,” Lijo said, “because it was one of my first opportunities to create logos. Knowing they were going to be widely visible, distributed, and worn on Rutgers Day made it even more fun.”  

While it’s fully stocked, The Rutgers SC&I school store is still missing something: a name. To address this, SC&I will host a contest on social media inviting currently enrolled SC&I undergraduate and graduate students to help name the store. 

The contest will be managed by SC&I Social Media Intern and Master of Communication and Media student Brenna Krawcheck, and will be announced on SC&I’s Instagram on Monday, November 1. One winner and two runner ups will be selected. Prizes from the SC&I school store will be awarded to all three. Stay tuned on Instagram for more contest details to come. 

Lijo said, “I am honored that my work as a SC&I intern and Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts student will be seen and enjoyed so widely on the store website, and I am especially pleased that school store sales will help support academic programs at SC&I.” 

Shop today at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information online store here.