Img27 (Windows 7)

img27 is a wallpaper included in Windows 7 as part of the Scenes theme. It was illustrated by freelance illustrators Paul Hwang and Benjamin Lee of Nanosphere, whom Microsoft found on agency 72 and Sunny. It depicts an abstract colorful landscape populated by a cartoonish worm and other creatures that appear like animated objects; the characters depicted here are known as Nanospores.

Nanospore also designed the Windows Live Messenger 2011-2012 scene Spore, which features edited parts of img27.

History
Nanospores are softball-sized alien creatures, a subspecies of the Spore race who were sent to Earth for research purposes as part of Operation RERE. They can be recognized by their beady eyes. Although they start out as blank spores, they use the resources from their immediate environment to build themselves, which results in their rounded bodies taking the shapes of everyday objects, and developing a unique apparence within two weeks. Multiple Nanospore characters appear in img27, including Maiden and Bean.