Jayme Odgers has been a particularly influential artist and designer for many years. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design, he is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship to Switzerland and over one hundred awards of excellence in graphic design. Jayme was among the small group of world-renowned artists commissioned to create poster art for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 100th anniversary of the Swiss publisher Thieme. He was commissioned to design fountains for the Metropolitan Water District’s Headquarters Building at Union Station, in downtown Los Angeles.
Numerous books and articles have included Odgers’ work, most significantly “The 20th Century Poster. Design of the Avant Garde” (Abbeville Press, New York). His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Art, Arco Center for the Visual Arts, The Albright Knox Museum and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Examples of his work are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City and The White House in Washington, D.C.
