We Make Nice is a side project we've been chipping away at for a little while now.

In essence, it's a nice, simple website, chock-full of mobile phone/tablet wallpapers which've been created either here in Birmingham or in Oslo. (Or wherever we happen to be really … but I mustn't get overly pernickety. You get the gist.)

We Make Nice initially came about from us here in Brum wanting to collaborate more frequently with Supercool co-founder Kris – the Norway connection – so we decided that every now and again we'd all agree on a theme, each produce a design or designs related to that theme, and share 'em. Simple.

To make this project a tad more meaningful, we thought it'd make sense for the designs to have a purpose; which is when we settled on making them into downloadable wallpapers.

This of course meant that we had to build the website to work on various hand-held devices, giving us a chance to do some nice things with responsive web design too. (We're all about the brains as well as the beauty.)

Granted, it's no big, clever, world-changing idea – but it is nice. And having this outlet isn't solely a pleasant thing to do, it's also helpful to us in our everyday jobs.

As much as we love doing client work, it's important to give the old grey matter a work-out, separate from client briefs, and just make something for its own sake. We Make Nice gives us this excuse to be playful which, in turn helps us do our jobs better by reminding and training our brains to think laterally.

So; We Make Nice makes us think collaboratively, playfully and laterally plus there's a lovely website from which you can download 'designer' wallpapers – and even curate your own little hand-held gallery of favourite designs, if you're so inclined? How very nice!

Have a browse of the website and download sommat nice for yourself: wemakenice.org

You can also 'Like' the We Make Nice Facebook page and follow @wemakenice on Twitter to find out when new designs've been added.