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2021 Industry Summit Award Winners
September 20, 2021
Last week during the Industry Summit we announced the winners of 24 awards that over 7,600 hobbyists took the time to vote for. From Best Baseball Product to Best Ongoing Promotion, you let your voices be heard. Now, that those awards have been handed out, check out the winners below....
Sports Artist of the Year: Blake Jamieson
Welcome to the Fanatical and Lucrative World of Baseball Card Design
August 25, 2021
Toward the end of my call with New York artist Blake Jamieson, I could hear the unmistakable rattling of a spray can ball bearing, followed by a serpentarium’s worth of hisses.
Illustration by Beatrice Sala
Photo by Bryan Cerda
Novato’s Blake Jamieson, other artists interpret the classic baseball card
May 4, 2021
When pop portrait painter Blake Jamieson began expressing his appreciation for his favorite Bay Area sports teams, he started with San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey in 2015. As a street artist, he hit the town with some spray paint to bomb walls near the team’s home turf.
This 36-year-old Brooklyn artist made over $46,000 in six weeks selling NFTs
April 10, 2021
The market for NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, has exploded this year – and many creators have profited off of the hype.
Among them is Brooklyn artist Blake Jamieson...
1951 Topps by Blake Jamieson - Baseball puts an artistic spin on an old set
January 13, 2021
It might not get as much love and attention as the 1952 set but 1951 Topps Baseball is still an important release. It has been reinterpreted a few times in recent years, but nothing like 1951 Topps by Blake Jamieson.
Blake Jamieson: It's never too late.
Oct. 7, 2020
Blake Jamieson’s art enthusiasm first started when he was young, growing up in a creative household in San Francisco, California....
Photo by Bryan Cerda
Photo by Bryan Cerda
How Topps Leapt Into the Future by Reimagining Baseball's Past
September 14, 2020
When Dr. Anthony Fauci threw the first pitch at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. on July 24, it was a headline-making moment — and not merely because his toss was wildly errant. The ceremonial heave also ushered in a baseball season that had been deferred for months due to concerns over Covid-19...
How Blake Jamieson Expanded His Art Empire From Topps Project 2020 Baseball Cards
September 9, 2020
Blake Jamieson had a burning secret he held onto for months, not out of shame, but due to a contractual responsibility to keep quiet. As one of Topps’ featured Project 2020 artists, the lifelong baseball fan was forced to hide his excitement from family and friends....
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Blake Jamieson Launches CardArt, Reflects on First Half of Topps Project 2020
August 31, 2020
As Topps Project 2020 enters the second half of its 400-card checklist, things continue to evolve. As Blake Jamieson awaits the release of his twelfth card out of an eventual 20, he’s not limiting himself to what’s on the schedule.
Instead, he’s used Project 2020 to push his work in several different directions....
Street, Cards And Desire: Blake Jamieson And His Journey To Topps Project 2020
July 2020
Growing up in the 1980s and coming of age in the ’90s, Blake Jamieson was all about the Bash Brothers — Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco. From Marin County, just north of San Francisco, he watched them live at the Oakland Coliseum when he was young. At home, he and his father amassed a collection of around 70,000 baseball cards.
A lot has happened to Jamieson since then...
Topps Project 2020: Blake Jamieson's art helping drive baseball card phenomenon
June 26, 2020
Every weekday at 1 p.m. ET, baseball card collectors and art aficionados alike log in to Topps’ website to see the latest card in the company’s ongoing Project 2020....
Every night, Topps artist streams his dream
June 2, 2020
NEW YORK -- If you want to know how much working on Topps’ groundbreaking 2020 Project means to artist Blake Jamieson, just listen to him talk about his Mark McGwire card. Or, better yet, watch him....
When baseball cards become pop art: Inside the Topps 2020 Project
May 21, 2020
The middle part of the 1990s took a major toll on the baseball card industry. All those ambitions of striking it rich off personal collections proved to be grossly overstated. The supply got out of hand, growing too large to keep pace with the anticipated values. There was also an MLB work stoppage and a younger generation that didn't take so fervently to the hobby, forcing companies to fold and sending the industry reeling....
Art Proving Unexpected Outlet to Fill the Baseball Void
April 30, 2020
Baseball has been shelved thus far in 2020, and while we eagerly await the resumption of America’s greatest game, fans have been clamoring for other outlets. With MLB The Show 20 driving additional PlayStation sales and Topps cornering the card collecting market there’s been some decent alternatives. It wasn’t until Project 2020 though that turned one of those other avenues into an event....
An interview with Blake Jamieson, artist for the Nolan Ryan Topps Project 2020 card
April 14, 2020
Topps is doing this really cool Project 2020 set which you’ve seen me write about a few times. They were cool and hooked me up with Blake Jamieson, artist for the Nolan Ryan Mets card, who answered a few questions....
Dodgers: Robinson, Koufax, and More with Blake Jamieson, Topps Project 2020 Artist
April 9, 2020
For 2020, Topps is commemorating the entire year with their “Project 2020” series, in which 20 acclaimed artists of diverse backgrounds reimagine 20 of the company’s most celebrated cards. Dodgers Nation had the privilege of interviewing one of these artists, Blake Jamieson, by phone....
Photo by Bryan Cerda
Life After LAX: Blake Jamieson, Portrait Artist
April 2, 2020
The premier portrait artist for athletes, Blake Jamieson’s subject matter only recently gravitated to the sport he started playing in high school in Marin County, Calif.
Lacrosse.
The connection began last year when he connected with Paul Rabil on Twitter....
Blake Jamieson: The Pop Portrait Artist of New York City You Need To Know About
January 25, 2019
Basquiat, Picasso, Warhol, Jamieson.
For those of you who are new to the art scene, Blake Jamieson is a homegrown artist from Novato, California, now residing in the big apple itself New York City.
With a thriving and buzzing art scene in the city that never sleeps, Blake Jamieson is staging an art take over in New York City....
Murray SawChuck & Rick Harrison Get Surprise Portraits from Blake Jamieson
Oct 3, 2017
Blake Jamieson is a renowned pop culture artists using different styles and paints to create super cool paintings of stars. Blake dropped into the Silver & Gold Pawn Shop to surprise Murray SawChuck and Rick Harrison with their own personal paintings!
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90 Days to MOMA: One San Francisco Artist’s Attempt at Hacking SFMOMA
August 10, 2016
You might remember him as the guy who hacked Tinder. Blake Jamieson is a former marketing agent who gave up a stable and promising career to become a full-time artist. He has co-opted the marketing strategies he learned as an agent to get as much exposure as possible in a short time frame....
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