Tom Greensfelder design records
Collection
Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Greensf
Scope and Content of the Collection
Tom Greensfelder has used the corporate name Greensfelder Design from 1987 forward. The records are largely files concerning a commission from Robert Sideman of Oakdale Press to create children’s bookplates employing a variety of artists, including Stephen Alcorn, Steven Guarnaccia, Peter Hannen, Nicole Hollander, and Slug Signorino. Other files include specimens of Greensfelder’s commercial work.
Dates
- 1989-2015
Creator
- Greensfelder, Tom (Person)
Language
Materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The Tom Greensfelder design records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Tom Greensfelder design records are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections at reference@newberry.org.
Biography of Tom Greensfelder
Chicago designer and calligrapher.
Tom Greensfelder received a B.A. in art and design from the University of California Los Angeles in 1972. He worked as a designer for McKinsey & Co. and the Environmental Impact Planning Corporation, and was art director for In These Times magazine, and the University of Chicago Alumni Magazine. Since 1987 he has run his own design firm, Greensfelder Design, in Chicago. Desultorily, he has also use d the name Magic Head Design. His clients have included Broadway In Chicago; the Illinois Humanities Council; cartoonists Nicole Hollander and Lynda Barry; and performers Bucky Halker, Tony Sacre, Tom Mula and Michael Fosberg. His more recent work is primarily book design. Greensfelder has taught calligraphy and lettering at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Loyola University and the Newberry Library. He helped to organize Chicago Calligraphy ’83, the third international calligraphy conference. He has curated exhibits at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts and at the Loyola University.
Tom Greensfelder received a B.A. in art and design from the University of California Los Angeles in 1972. He worked as a designer for McKinsey & Co. and the Environmental Impact Planning Corporation, and was art director for In These Times magazine, and the University of Chicago Alumni Magazine. Since 1987 he has run his own design firm, Greensfelder Design, in Chicago. Desultorily, he has also use d the name Magic Head Design. His clients have included Broadway In Chicago; the Illinois Humanities Council; cartoonists Nicole Hollander and Lynda Barry; and performers Bucky Halker, Tony Sacre, Tom Mula and Michael Fosberg. His more recent work is primarily book design. Greensfelder has taught calligraphy and lettering at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Loyola University and the Newberry Library. He helped to organize Chicago Calligraphy ’83, the third international calligraphy conference. He has curated exhibits at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts and at the Loyola University.
Extent
2 Linear Feet (3 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Abstract
Chicago calligrapher and designer. Files concerning Oakdale Press children’s bookplate designs and other projects.
Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Oakdale Press Children's Bookplates, 1990-1992
- Boxes 1-4
- Series 2: Other files, 1989-2015
- Box 2
Collection Stack Location
4a 30 4
Provenance
Gift of Tom Greensfelder, 2015.
Processed by
Robert Williams, 2015.
- Alcorn, Stephen
- Bookplates -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Specimens
- Bookplates, American
- Calligraphers -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Children's books -- Collectors and collecting
- Designers -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Greensfelder Design (Firm)
- Greensfelder, Tom
- Guarnaccia, Steven
- Hannen, Peter
- Hollander, Nicole
- Magic Head Design (Firm)
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Oakdale Press
- Sideman, Robert
- Signorino, Slug
Creator
- Greensfelder, Tom (Person)
- Title
- Inventory of the Tom Greensfelder design records, 1989-2015
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Robert Williams
- Date
- ©2015.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts Repository
Contact:
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org