Book Cover: The Lawless Book of Love

The Lawless Book of Love or Online Dating Laid Bare, John Murray
Year: 2018

I had so much fun designing this cover, thinking of all the good, the funny and the ugly sides of online dating! The initial brief was completely different, focusing on whole faces, but since the tone of the book is more comical, I thought a more fragmented and caricatural style would work better.

Notice the "like" symbol is a bit tweaked here. It's courtesy of my good friend who always makes a "thumb-up of half-success" sign, when something goes kiiiiinda okay but not without some setbacks. I thought it was extremely fitting in this case ;)

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It is 2014 and Joe Lawless is a foreign correspondent who has retired to Kalamos island, Greece. One night in the small hours his great-uncle Wilfred who has been dead since 1965 turns up in his bedroom on an urgent mission. Having passed beyond and also having acute supernatural powers Wilfred is able to tell him that before long Joe’s daughter Sarah will put her widowed Dad on the UK dating site Lovebirds.com. He has come to warn Joe that the search for lasting love will not be easy and among the Lovebirds clients there are certain women with unusual and idiosyncratic agendas. These range from being Shaman initiates, to a lady with a one-eyed singing parrot, to the yoga practitioners who listen to the radio with an unexpected part of their anatomy, to the Desert Island Discs addict who has a profound erotic addiction to the legendary show.

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