I'm Marcus Chen—a designer, writer, and occasional developer based in Copenhagen. I spend my days crafting digital products at a small studio, and my evenings thinking too much about typography, design systems, and the future of creative tools.
This blog is where I work through ideas. Some of them are about design. Some are about the creative process more broadly—how we think, how we work, and how we build things that matter. I write for the version of myself from two years ago: someone who was figuring things out and wished someone would just explain it plainly.
I studied visual communication in Amsterdam, spent five years at agencies in Berlin and London, and eventually settled into product design. Along the way, I picked up enough front-end development to be dangerous and enough typographic knowledge to be opinionated.
I've led design systems at two companies, shipped more landing pages than I can count, and learned that the best design work usually happens in the unglamorous space between "good enough" and "actually good."
Thinking in Pixels is built with @webhouse/cms, a file-based CMS engine for TypeScript projects. The site is statically generated—no JavaScript frameworks, no client-side rendering. Just HTML, CSS, and words. The way the web was meant to be read.
You can find me on Twitter and GitHub, or reach me by email at marcus@thinkingpixels.com. I read everything, though I'm slow to reply.