Happy Canada Day! Here are the best HELLO posts from one year ago, July 2008:

• The incredibly moving Days With My Father, by photographer Phillip Toledano.
• Andy Gilmore’s explorations of color and symmetry.
• Greetings, stationary and more by Linda & Harriett.
• Detect breast cancer before it strikes instructional disc, from Academy of Medicine Malaysia.
• Remembering Randy Pausch and his 2007 Last Lecture.
• National Geographic’s Micro-marine photography by David Doublet.
• Gondryesque “folding” video spot for Vodaphone.
• Vivid Nest 8 nesting bowls from Morph.
• Vice Magazine uses glow-in-the-dark ink as advert space on the front cover.
• The illustration work of Tessar Lo.
• What if there were no stop signs, and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?
• Draftfcb dramatizes the dunking of an Oreo using a shopping mall elevator.