I graduated from UC Davis with a degree in design and one big goal: make something that solves a common, everyday problem.

In May and June, I traveled through Southeast Asia staying in hostels with almost no personal space. I was constantly taking everything out of my bags (makeup, toiletries, hair ties) onto my bed, then packing it all back in. There had to be a better way.

Back home, one night I couldn’t stop thinking about it: an origami-like bag that could turn into a tray. At 1:00 a.m., I started folding the first prototype out of manila envelopes.

That envelope became the bag that opens into a tray, so you can see everything at once and stop digging.