http://www.katybeck.com/ en-us katybeck@katybeck.com 2010-01-01T09:24:56-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/photos/2009_in_review.php Its been a whirlwind of a year, hasn't it? :) January Winter in Providence. | President Obama inaugurated. February Working on my Nancy MacIntyre book | Teaching Web Design | St Patricks Day in Boston! March I turn 30. |... 1328@http://www.katybeck.com/ Photos 2010-01-01T09:24:56-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/family/post_4.php I spent a fantastic five days in Lake Charles, LA, visiting my grandparents for Thanksgiving. One of the days we hopped in the car (cars, rather, since there were six of us) and drove around downtown and the lakefront... 1327@http://www.katybeck.com/ Family 2009-12-03T13:53:59-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/typography/a_little_side_p.php 1326@http://www.katybeck.com/ Typography 2009-09-27T11:51:49-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/places_ive_called_home/boston/gainfully_emplo.php After three years of living on a student schedule, I have finally returned to the working world and gotten a "real job." I eased into it, though, working two days a week for a month before officially starting last week.... 1325@http://www.katybeck.com/ Boston 2009-09-13T09:27:05-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/grad_school/everywhere_at_o.php Its taken me a while to be able to sit down and write a summary about finishing grad school, but here it is in a nutshell: I'm done! :) That convoluted thing you see above was the title, and basically... 1324@http://www.katybeck.com/ Grad School 2009-08-28T19:24:28-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/grad_school/gearing_up.php We installed our work in the convention center yesterday, part of a series of preparations in anticipation of the Graduate Thesis show that will open this Thursday. I set up a camera and tripod and made a couple makeshift videos... 1322@http://www.katybeck.com/ Grad School 2009-05-11T09:33:33-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/general/play_ball.php "And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all... 1321@http://www.katybeck.com/ General 2009-04-06T07:29:24-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/grad_school/the_big_threeoh.php I turned thirty this week, and it was not at all the traumatic experience I was fearing. Instead, I took a nice, leisurely day to myself on the actual day, and then had a whole week of scattered lunches, dinners,... 1320@http://www.katybeck.com/ Grad School 2009-04-05T20:04:11-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/grad_school/spring_break.php Well, its finally Spring Break here at RISD. My last spring break for the foreseeable future, unless I become a professor somewhere! Thesis year people are "strongly encouraged" to stay in town for the week, which really means there will... 1319@http://www.katybeck.com/ Grad School 2009-03-24T16:44:04-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/grad_school/snow_day.php School is cancelled today because of the 8-12 inches of snow we're supposed to get, and even though I don't have any classes until tomorrow afternoon, that still means I am entitled to slack off and write a blog post!... 1318@http://www.katybeck.com/ Grad School 2009-03-02T08:05:32-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/family/headed_down_sou.php I am writing this blog post from the airport, waiting for general boarding to begin for my flight to Dallas for the holidays. What a whirlwind semester its been! I have one semester of graduate school left, and the combination... 1317@http://www.katybeck.com/ Family 2008-12-15T12:42:03-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/grad_school/brown_27_cornel.php Today I attended a good old fashioned ivy league football game, and luckily Brown beat Cornell at home 27 to 7, in front of a spirited crowd. The weather was crisp, the hot dogs delicious, and the football was... 1316@http://www.katybeck.com/ Grad School 2008-10-25T18:33:36-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/family/my_weekend_choc.php This weekend was filled to the brim with activity, most of it with the scoobs up in Boston. So much activity, in fact, that I am dragging and tired on this sunny Monday morning, and feeling slightly congested like I... 1315@http://www.katybeck.com/ Family 2008-10-13T08:18:00-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/desktop_manufac.php This week I tried out two cool services: Ponoko and Spoonflower. Both are new entries in a little niche called desktop manufacturing, where you can design something at your home computer and have it fabricated in small quantities without sacrificing... 1314@http://www.katybeck.com/ Design 2008-10-06T08:52:04-05:00 http://www.katybeck.com/archives/design/grad_school/all_class_shoul.php You know you're in grad school when your professors start saying things like, "Let's hold class an hour later. Class at 8am is uncivilized." Or, "Next week, we will meet at the beach. But first I would like to take... 1313@http://www.katybeck.com/ Grad School 2008-09-20T09:34:55-05:00