Happy weekend, team Hilom. Today we celebrate bold creativity and solid community. A Dutch designer fills his sketches with energy by coloring beyond the lines. In Wisconsin, a group of teens kept a beloved cafe alive while the owner was in the hospital. May we dare to create and choose to care.
Steven de Groot keeps things raw and dynamic by letting color bleed outside the forms, then tightening with shadows, highlights, and white lines. The result is clean yet full of motion, like ideas in progress. It is a great reminder that neatness is not the only path to mastery and that play fuels skill.
Watch hereUrban Olive and Vine in Hudson stayed open because teen workers took on grown up responsibilities for months. They learned fast, covered shifts, and held space for their community until the owner recovered. It is work ethic, loyalty, and heart in one story and proof that young people rise when trusted.
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