A new book is out that gives advice on all things love. In the author’s experience, love matters tend to be obstructed by partners making the same mistakes over and over.

He argues that many are not aware of the essential physics of relationships, from how they are typically starting out to what causes them to they fail, and aims to remedy that through his book. Relationships, in the author’s view, follow along basic patterns that both partners need to understand before sucessfully engaging in a love affair to last.

Martin Rauh-Köpsel is a psychologist, an educator, and an expert advisor for German television.

I have created the book’s jacket design using an illustration of a heart-shaped roundabout with various exits. >MORE

Martin Rauh-Köpsel: Die Liebe ist ein Kreisverkehr – Wie Sie im Beziehungschaos die richtige Ausfahrt nehmen (Roundabout Love: Taking the Right Exit)

A special audio book edition of Liebe – ein unordentliches Gefühl (Love: An Unruly Emotion) has recently been released by Random House.

The printed edition was a major bestseller in Germany. Richard David Precht, Germany’s bestselling nonfiction author (Wer bin ich, und wenn ja, wie viele? – Who am I: And if So, How Many?), elaborates on the topic of love from a multitude of backgrounds in history, biology, neuroscience, and philosophy.

My cover design employs a similar style which I created for Who am I?, employing bold type and a whimsical illustration.

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Here’s my latest piece for today’s Welt am Sonntag Sunday newspaper, illustrating the two worlds that people living alone vs. people engaged in a relationship find themselves in. (I managed to incorporate my mom and my grandma into this image, which is always a treat.)

O Life and Love! O happy throng
Of thoughts, whose only speech is song!
O heart of man! canst thou not be
Blithe as the air is, and as free?

- From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Day Of Sunshine