Collection: Life Prints

Around three hundred lines about the business of being alive: attention, change, time, and making the most of an ordinary day. Goethe, Tagore, Thich Nhat Hanh, Benjamin Franklin and Isabel Allende are here, and so are the Japanese idiom 一期一会 (one time, one meeting) and the Korean and Russian proverbs that take life as it comes.

These are prints for living spaces: a kitchen where the day starts, a hallway, a bedroom wall you see last thing at night. They are the lines people choose for a new home, a fortieth birthday or a retirement, because they are about the whole shape of a life rather than one goal. Non-English prints carry the original only, with the English translation on the product page; Chinese and Japanese are set vertically.

Three to start with

• 一期一会 (One time, one meeting: treasure every encounter), Japanese proverb
• Nothing is worth more than this day, Goethe
• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough, Rabindranath Tagore

Questions people ask

Is this a good gift collection? Yes, probably the best. A line about living well suits almost any occasion and almost any wall, and the plain typography goes with any room.

What do I receive? A print-ready PDF with embedded vector type, downloaded straight after payment. No physical item is shipped.

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