Olympiad Poster, 1984

Program

BFA 62 Advertising

Jayme Odgers is a painter and graphic designer who lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and is in the permanent collections of New York’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and The White House. Odgers was commissioned to create an official poster for the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics; he also designed two water fountains for the Metropolitan Water District’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. A Fulbright scholar, Odgers has received more than 100 awards of excellence in graphic design. His work is featured in “The 20th -Century Poster: Design of the Avant-Garde;” “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990;” “The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers” and “Meggs’ History of Graphic Design.” Odgers has taught at ArtCenter, CalArts and Otis College of Art and Design.