Jayme Odgers graduated from The Art Center School in Los Angeles with a Bachelors Degree in Art with Great Distinction. In 1964 he apprenticed under Paul Rand, the father of American graphic design.
In 1966 Odgers was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study in Europe. During this phase of his life, he was honored with over 100 awards of excellence in design including Gold Medal Awards from the New York and Los Angeles Art Director’s Club plus an international silver Typomundus Award for Excellence in typography.
In 2006 he was awarded an Honorary 2006 Henry Award for extraordinary conribution to California Modernist Design by the newly formed Musuem of California Design. Odgers continued garnering world-wide attention being seminal in establishing a new look for California design producing work which was later exhibited at the Museo Fortuny in Venice, Italy in 1987. In 1983, Jayme Odgers was selected to do an official poster for the 1984 XXIIIrd Olympiad held in Los Angeles along with fourteen ‘world class’ artists, including David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Johnathon Borfosky, and John Baldessari,, held in Los Angeles.
In 1986, Odgers was one of eight international artists commissioned to design a poster commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Thieme, the international publishing firm of Zurich, Switzerland.
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, the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City and The White House in Washington, D.C. Jayme’s poster for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was included in the Walker Art Center’s 1984 landmark show, Posters of The Century: Design of the Avant Garde along with works by Rodchenko, Man Ray and Paul Rand.
Numerous books and articles have included Odgers’ work as well as consecutively being listed in Who’s Who. In addition to teaching at The Art Center School and its later incarnation the Art Center College of Design, the California Institute of the Arts and Otis-Parsons in Los Angeles, Jayme has guest taught and lectured extensively. Most recently he toured and lectured in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, Japan at the invitation of the Tokyo Gakuin.
His most recent public art commission was designing two water fountains for the
Metropolitan Water District’s Headquarters Building plaza in downtown Los Angeles.
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