Inspired by flash mobs that have been occurring around the world, our design team has decided to offer our own take on these. As defined in Wikipedia, a flash mob is “is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse.” While some of the better known flash mobs have brought people together for absurd events like pillow fights, clapping and chirping, we thought we could use the concept for applied design efforts. Though you never know, maybe you’ll see us impersonating chickens on the front lawn some day. We are kinda crazy in that way.

In the coming hours and days you will see the fruits of one of our first forays into the crazy world that is flash mobbing … albeit … AIM design team stylie.

Here are the rules and guidelines for this one:

Assignment

• Design an AIM desktop wallpaper.

Rules

• Must include AIM logo
• Use 1600×1200 palette
• Don’t use rights protected photos, fonts or other proprietary content.
• Give credit where credit is due for photos, fonts, etc. (Creative Commons).
• Spend about 1hr to a 1.5hrs on your design only exceeding that if you have to do some finishing touches.
• Write a blog post to design.aim.com about your thought process and include your desktop for viewing and download.

Guidelines

• Its all about AIM, however you want to interpret that.
• Try to reflect some personal style into your design.
• Have fun. Be creative.

-Tom

NOTE: originally posted on the AIM Design Blog.

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