Front Cover
Front Cover
CHALLENGE
How can design express the mood of a lyric?
SOLUTION—BLACK COFFEE LYRIC BOOK
The Black Coffee Lyric book represent the overall dark mood, lonely and helpless emotions of Black Coffee's song lyric through the textures of my book's paper, the background image design (ink drawing being scanned), the positive and negative space, the typesetting, the size of the book (5"x7") and the binding method (thread and needles).
DESIGN TOUCH POINTS
Book design, Ink drawing and painting, Expressive Art
Colophon, Works Cited & Page 1
Page 2&3
page 4&5
page 6&7
page 8 & 9
Back cover
Back cover
Black Coffee Lyric
Written by Sonny Burke 1948
I'm feeling mighty lonesome
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door
And in between I drink
Black Coffee
Love's a hand me down brew
I'll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room
Haven't slept a wink
I walk the floor and watch the door
And in between I drink
Black Coffee
Love's a hand me down brew
I'll never know a Sunday
In this weekday room
I'm talking to the shadows
1 o'clock to 4
And Lord, how slow the moments go
When all I do is pour
Black Coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on Monday
My Sunday dream's too dry
1 o'clock to 4
And Lord, how slow the moments go
When all I do is pour
Black Coffee
Since the blues caught my eye
I'm hanging out on Monday
My Sunday dream's too dry
Now a man is born to go a lovin'
A woman's born to weep and fret
To stay at home and tend her oven
And drown her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes
A woman's born to weep and fret
To stay at home and tend her oven
And drown her past regrets
In coffee and cigarettes
I'm moody all the morning
Mourning all the night
And in between it's nicotine
And not much hard to fight
Black Coffee
Feelin' low as the ground
It's driving me crazy just waiting for my baby
To maybe come around
Mourning all the night
And in between it's nicotine
And not much hard to fight
Black Coffee
Feelin' low as the ground
It's driving me crazy just waiting for my baby
To maybe come around
My nerves have gone to pieces
My hair is turning gray
All I do is drink black coffee
Since my man's gone away
My hair is turning gray
All I do is drink black coffee
Since my man's gone away
