Numerous Difference

Numerous Difference is a graphic identity system built from 100 stones collected at random along a coastline in Shenyang, China. Each stone was numbered on site and its exact time and position recorded before being brought back to the studio, where every contour was hand-traced and rendered into a visual language using multiple graphic methods.

The traced silhouettes became the foundation for a system spanning posters, packaging, a billboard, printed cards, and a tote bag. Each piece carries the identity of a single stone — its shape, number, and moment of collection. No two outputs are the same, and all were given away for free, each person leaving with a connection to a stone they have never seen.

The project title holds a typographic double reading. The Chinese characters can be read as "one hundred differences" or "one stone, different" — the character for "hundred" was deliberately shaped to sit between "stone" and "hundred." The collective and the singular, in the same word.

A spatial installation extended the work into three dimensions. All 100 stone outlines were cut from paper and hung in sequence from a wooden frame, inviting viewers to look through layered voids at once. After the project, every stone was returned to its original position on the coastline.