Zen's dark desk setup — Shanghai, China
Desktop setup isn't about the price of a specific device; it's more about whether it fits well into my desk environment and serves a high utility.
- Contributor
- Zen
- Role
- Photographer
- Place
- Shanghai, China
- Year
- 2025
- Use
- Content / creative
- Display
- Triple+
- Source
- wdsf-2025-1899653506748870658
More3
- MBTI
- ISFP
- Room
- 8㎡
- Budget
- about $20,000
Gear list19 items · includes affiliate links
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- Monitor light
- BenQ Screenbar (opens in new tab)
- External storage
- Lacie Big Dock 4TB X2 (opens in new tab)
- Speakers
- B&W 606 S3 (opens in new tab)
- Headphones
- Bose QuietComfort 45 (opens in new tab)

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In their own words
Desktop setup isn't about the price of a specific device; it's more about whether it fits well into my desk environment and serves a high utility. My personal suggestion is to first consider whether a device plays a crucial role in your work or entertainment and then think about aesthetic aspects.
— Zen
Observation notes
Zen's three monitors, plus a Wacom pen display angled in front of the keyboard, all run the exact same wallpaper — a single abstract light-curve image repeated across every screen in the room. A color-grading control surface with trackballs and jog wheels sits front and center, next to two full-size mechanical keyboards, making the desk read as a post-production bay before anything else.
Deep blue ambient lighting fills the room, with a Nanoleaf hexagon panel glowing on the side wall and a boom mic swinging in from overhead. Two cameras — a rangefinder-style body and a Fujifilm mirrorless with a prime lens attached — sit out on the desk rather than packed away, ready to go straight from shoot to edit on the same setup.
Zen's own philosophy is about utility over price tag — whether a device earns its place by function first, aesthetics second — and a desk built around actual post-production tools, not just displays, backs that up directly.




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