“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 ...

the letter featured in nursery rhymes taught to children: "X, Y, and ampersand / All wished for a piece in hand.” By the end of the 19th Century, ampersand fell out of the alphabet, having only ...