Japanese illustrator Hugo Yoshikawa illustrated a complete alphabet using the famous monuments from each cities and making a type of hand drawn collage with it. The ABC illustration series of European cities was made as part of an exhibition in Tokyo at the Tokyu Art Gallery in Shibuya. All the letters are drawn with ink and then watercoloured.
Here is the list of the cities:
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Barcelona (Spain)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Dublin (Ireland)
Edinburgh (UK)
Frankfurt (Germany)
Geneva (Switzerland)
Helsinki (Finland)
Istanbul (Turkey)
Jerez de la Frontera (Spain)
Kiev (Ukraine)
London (UK)
Madrid (Spain)
Naples (Italy)
Oslo (Norway)
Paris (France)
Quimper (France)
Rome (Italy)
Stockholm (Sweden)
Toulouse (France)
Utrecht (Netherlands)
Venice (Italy)
Warsaw (Poland)
Xanten (Germany)
York (UK)
Zagreb (Croatia)
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