Collection: Family & Friendship Prints

Over two hundred lines about the people we belong to: family, friends, neighbours, home. Confucius on friends arriving from far away, Emerson on how to have a friend, Schiller's line that became the Ode to Joy, and a great many proverbs, because every language has a saying about the friend who turns up when things go wrong. Italian, Spanish, Croatian and Korean are especially well represented; they are languages of the family table.

These prints go in the shared rooms of a house: a kitchen, a dining room, an entrance hall, the wall where the family photos hang. They are the classic gift for a housewarming, a wedding, a milestone birthday or a parent. A print in a family's heritage language is often the one that gets framed first.

Three to start with

• 有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎 (Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant places?), Confucius
• The only way to have a friend is to be one, Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Den Freund erkennt man in der Not (A friend is recognised in times of need), German proverb

Questions people ask

Is the translation on the print? Yes. Every non-English line carries its English translation, set smaller beneath the original. Chinese and Japanese lines are set vertically.

What do I receive? A print-ready PDF with embedded vector type, downloaded straight after payment.

Which sizes? Eight, from 5 x 7 inches to 24 x 36 inches, plus A4. Print at home or at a print shop.