Jayme Odgers (1939–2022) was a painter and graphic designer with a BA from ArtCenter College of Design. Jayme received numerous awards over the course of his career, including a Fulbright Scholarship to Switzerland and over one hundred awards of excellence in graphic design, notably serving as Paul Rand’s assistant from 1964 to 1966. Jayme, in collaboration with designer April Greiman, was selected to create an official poster for the 1984 XXIIIrd Olympiad held in Los Angeles, along with such distinguished artists as David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Jonathan Borofsky, and John Baldessari.
Jayme’s 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, with inclusion in the permanent collections of the The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York City, The White House, Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Numerous books and articles have included Jayme’s work, most significantly The 20th Century Poster, Design of the Avant Garde (Abbeville Press, New York), and the catalog for POSTMODERNISM, Style and Subversion 1970–1990 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2102. His work is included in the latest Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers by Thames & Hudson, and Megg’s History of Graphic Design. His most recent inclusion can be found in Freehand, New Typography Sketch Books, 2018, by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico.
All works are offset litho on paper unless otherwise noted.
These materials were generously donated to the HMCT Archive by Lisa Adams, in loving memory of Jayme Odgers.
