Northside Gal

Aesthetic & other virtual musings from River City Northside Gal, Meena Khalili of Lot 15 Studio.

Newest work from my students in Graphic Design II, a sophomore course at Virginia State University’s Art & Design program.

Pictured top: Snippets project. A 13-week project that was a typographic/image-driven response to anything overheard the week prior.


Pictured below: The Device Project. Students were asked to admit their greatest weakness and develop, make and wear a device that would protect them against it. Each poster shows the student wearing their device and details what their device does.

3 weeks ago

VSU Graphic Design II students had a photoshoot with me today. Had to take a class photo and enjoy a moment for outtakes. 

1 month ago - 1

Select student works from today’s #pub_des Autobiographical Artist Books exhibition.

2 months ago - 5
Making stickers for our students that promote our faculty and staff members. Lots of love here at VSU A&D!

Making stickers for our students that promote our faculty and staff members. Lots of love here at VSU A&D!

Hipster Words.
On Behance: http://bit.ly/PXaUAg 

4 months ago

NEW WORK!
Client: Lift

Lift is a new brand of facial acupuncture treatments, seminars, and formulations (serums). Logotype work developed for branding websites, packaging, exhibits, etc.

4 months ago - 4

— TRAVELOGUE —
And, these are the final seven spreads from my Sketchbook Project 2012. To learn more about the sketchbook project, watch this video or go to their website here. 

4 months ago - 1

— TRAVELOGUE —
These are the first seven spreads from my Sketchbook Project 2012. To learn more about the sketchbook project, watch this video or go to their website here. 

4 months ago - 2

You that love lovers,
this is your home. Welcome!

In the midst of making form, love
made this form that melts form,
with love for the door,
soul the vestibule.

Watch the dust grains moving
in the light near the window.

Their dance is our dance.
We rarely hear the inward music, 
but we’re dancing to it nevertheless,

Directed by the one who teaches us,
the pure joy of the sun,
our music master.

~ Rumi

Beautiful tattoos.
Images from design d’autore 
by Shirin Neshat, Mike Giant,
& Suchet Suwanmongkol.

7 months ago
tattooflash:

Jay Beheading

tattooflash:

Jay Beheading

das-kewl:

High School Fads, 1944

how conveniently coincidental that I wore a bow on the back of my head when I was in high school.

8 months ago - 95678

(Source: 4gifs, via asongagainstsex)

Those who know me well may consider it no surprise I find this article to be so inspiring: On How to Be an Explorer of the Wordbrainpickings.org 

8 months ago - 7

There are some stories that are a part of the very fabric of your being. For me, Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux prunes) is one of those stories. The trailer is released and I eagerly await the film by Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) and Vincent Paronnaud.

It is a story of a man who plays music through his cherished sitar (in the film it is depicted as a violin). One day, in a fit of rage spurred on by an argument, his wife breaks his sitar to pieces. Demolished. The man travels far and wide looking for another instrument with the same angelic sound, but to no avail. It is at this point the man sees no reason to live and gives himself a week before he dies. The relationships of the man and his family come to light in those seven days…It is truly a beautiful story. 

9 months ago - 1