Following the 2025 competition brief of ‘Health and Wellbeing’, Romaine created ‘Serenity’, a support device that helps with mental health, using aromatherapy and light therapy to change peoples’ mind, mood and energy. Romaine said he had been inspired to come up with his product through wanting to help people who have a spectrum of personal mental health problems, and said he was extremely grateful his work had been recognised and appreciated.
Romaine was one of just six finalists, with the industry judges praising his professionalism and citing “very fine” margins amongst the finalists.
Chairman of judges, Richard Brown, said: “This was a very well thought out product which Romaine totally redesigned following feedback from the judges in the preliminary round of judging. As a first-year student he has demonstrated he has a future ahead of him in product design, having presented and demonstrated his project very professionally.”
DIP is the longest running plastics design competition for university undergraduates in Europe, supported by The Worshipful Company of Horners, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and headline sponsored by polymer manufacturer, Covestro.