Jason F King is a cyclist, a designer, and a photographer — usually in that order. His degrees and decades of experience are in architecture and urban planning, but he prefers the first three titles. He lives in Austin, Texas.

He works at the seam where technology, art, and design meet. He likes processes that look complicated from the outside because they are, and treats science as a kind of art and art as a kind of science. The work he cares about most makes cities and buildings better for the people who actually use them.

He doesn't know why he is writing this in the third person.

I've taught at universities — computational modeling, interactive design, digital fabrication, and a range of architecture and urban planning studios and seminars.

Before Austin I spent a long stretch in California. During part of that, in my younger years, I was a professional skateboarder, and some of what I made in that long stretch combined design and skateboarding in ways I'm still proud of.

I read. I write when I have something worth saying. I have a soft spot for meaningful things that meaningful people have spent meaningful time on.

Most days I explore cities by bicycle, looking for three things: playful moments hiding in the mundane; ruins in nature, or unnatural nature in cities; and large fields of color, which I'm trying to flatten into something painterly. I'm still working on the third.

I recently got a large-format camera that I'm still figuring out. I'm mostly using it to fight three-point perspective.

Most of my photographs are black and white. I'm colorblind, and black-and-white pictures are easier for a colorblind person to edit. They also just look better. Then again, I also take and edit a great many color photographs, so these last few sentences may not have said anything at all.

I also love going fast on absurdly expensive bicycles, and I've committed to getting faster until my body decides that's fast enough.