Our history

The history of Create Your Sky dates back to 2009, when Roger Bordoy, its founder, moved to Zurich, Switzerland, to carry out his PhD in Environmental Engineering.

Right at the beginning of his Swiss adventure he rented a room in a shared apartment with three other flatmates. The apartment was very close to a beautiful forest and it was located five minutes from the University campus. It was perfect! However, for him the most striking aspect of that room was that it had few glowing stars on the ceiling, right above the bed. Believe it or not, he had never had before glowing stars in his room!

After a couple of months, he had to leave that flat, but before leaving, he asked the girl that sublet him the room where she bought the glowing stars. To his surprise, she did not tell him where she bought the little stars, instead she suggested him to buy glowing paper and make the stars by himself.

Her answer inspired him! It didn’t suffice now to have five or ten star-shaped glowing points in his new room. He wanted the whole Universe! He wanted to go as close as possible to making the ceiling of the new room transparent to be able to enjoy the night sky from the comfort of the bed.

He started working hard on it. He created a scaled representation of the northern sky so that it would fit in the new room. He drew a few templates on paper, cut and attached them to the ceiling, and filled the star positions with little circles made out of glowing paper. The result was amazing!

He enjoyed his personal night sky for several years, but after completing his PhD he had to move apartments again, so the obvious question came up: what will I do with my sky when I move out? He had to find a way to recreate the sky in a much simpler and efficient way. With that, Create Your Sky was born!