“Alphabet Topography,” a piece from Yale graduates Caspar Lam and YuJune Park of the Synoptic Office design studio, recreates the letters like a map of the mountains. The height of each letter ...

One quibble: the alphabet seems to stop at W is for Walrus. Some suggestions for the remaining letters: X is for Xenops (a small bird found in Mexico), Y is for Yapok (an aquatic possum (!)), and ...

Letter J doesn’t exist in the Italian alphabet, they called i lunga and it’s written with an i. * Alphabet City near the East Village in NYC is certainly not that place.

Loh says that the “Z” letter was the most difficult to illustrate. “ I knew that I wanted it to be meaningful symbolically because it was also the last letter in the alphabet.