We like this design quotes screensaver from neography. On long days when your brain becomes as idle as your computer, these quotes kick things up a little in the noggin.

We’re following the Green Truck on Twitter, counting down to when it stops at Hello for lunch today. It’s all about bettering the environment on the Green Truck, from organic ingredients, a solar powered commissary, to a truck that runs on vegetable oil. We can’t wait to bite down on the Mother Trucker vegan burger, or maybe a Helms Ave tuna sandwich.

The truck has arrived.

Not your typical graffiti, you might have noticed graffiti animals on the streets of LA, cute enough to make the biggest road ragers smile. As Shepard Fairey’s former assistant at Obey Giant’s Studio Number One, Philip Lumbang’s bears, coined awesome bears, are his signature style. Check out this timelapse video we made of Phil painting the mural next door at teaforest.

Look what we got in the mail.

A Hello Skateboard from Buddy Carr Skateboards. When one of our clients saw it, they just had to send it to us as a thank you gift. We thought it was awesome that a Hello Skateboard even existed, but then we found out it’s also a limited edition model with only 100 of them out there. The deck is maple with laser cut grip tape, urethane wheels, shield precision steel ball bearings – the whole package. The best part is the “hellos” printed in a bunch of different languages on the body of the deck and the wheels.

We keep it in our conference room, and once in awhile we take it out for a few laps around the block and try to ollie.

We landed in New York today and were greeted by this giant Hello Kitty statue. Hello Kitty, meet Hello Design.

We celebrate Halloween at Hello by putting our design skills to the test with our traditional pumpkin-carving contest.

There were some amazing designs this year including a very intricate Hello Kitty face carved by Eunice.

In the end Sung won with his two-faced pumpkin: evil on one side, friendly on the other.

We went go kart racing at K1 Speed today. Instead of gas-powered karts, they use electric ones that can accelerate up to 45 mph! Helmets were required, which was good because at one point Hiro’s car ended up on top of David’s. Luckily with the flip of a switch, they can stop the karts so no one gets hurt.

I guess we really needed these helmets.

After the first race Abbey said, “I’m hugging the corners so I don’t get hit. I don’t want to die!” but by lap 10 she was going full throttle. Congrats to the winners circle!

Heat 1: Justin took 1st, Erich 2nd, and George 3rd.

Heat 2: Szu Ann took 1st, Eunice 2nd, and Jacky 3rd.