From a young age, I loved using binders to keep my notes and documents organized. A binder gave me the freedom to flip through and write on every single page. Its three rings and three holes always reminded me of America’s own system of checks and balances—each part working together, yet keeping one another in line, so everything stays perfectly ordered.

As a scholar who traveled widely, I often carried heavy binders full of papers across the world. One day, after class, I noticed new students saying goodbye with only a handful of notes—but still carrying the same bulky binders. It struck me: why isn’t there a binder that can expand and contract depending on how many papers you actually have?

I drove to Walmart and Staples—nothing. I searched Amazon and Google for hours—still nothing. Then, in Brussels, while standing in the Grand Place, I heard a street musician playing Piazzolla’s Libertango. The sound and rhythm of the accordion—stretching and compressing with such elegance—sparked an idea: what if a binder could work the same way? A binder that grows and shrinks just like an accordion.

After countless design iterations, I finally finalized the product’s structure while in Spain. Now came the question: what should it be called? This was not just another binder—it was the most innovative redesign in more than 140 years of binder history. A product that was truly INnovative, FUN to use, and created with an INTERNational vision.

And so, INFUN was born