Two mots-images by Jean Alessandrini, thanks to design et typo Combining animals with letters is an old idea, but still as fun as always, and open to endless variations. Today's selection includes both hand-lettered and typographic creatures, and even three-dimensional ones. Ancient Chinese figure-inscription of an Ox designed to discourage people from eating meat and The Bear by Johann Leonhard Frisch, c.1700, thanks to Retro Graphic Design + Ernst Keller, 1949 Tom Carnase via the Graphic…