Barton Damer of Igniter, Echo, Collide and even Catalyst fame has a new blog of his own, Already Been Chewed.

You may not recognize the name but Barton has been on the leading edge of some of the coolest church graphic design stuff for a while now.  I sent him an email a while ago asking for a recommendation for a graphic designer and he completely ignored me.  (just putting that out there)

Barton has been featured on the web as a contributor to the popular Gomediazine.com. His tutorial on Creating Intricate Patterns in Illustrator is recognized by Smashing Magazine as one of the “Best of Illustrator Tutorials” and PSD Tuts featured his Bling Effect tutorial in a post about Great Photoshop Tutorials.

If you can get past the lime green, barely recognizable links, the blog has a bunch of good stuff on it.  My advice?

1. Use permalinks preferrably /%postname%/
2. Ditch the browns. For an incredible graphic designer, this site is hard to look at.
3. Only use one header.  You use a boring one with your logo in the top, then a changing one with logo variations just below it.  huh?

All in all I am looking forward to what he writes about and I have subscribed to his feed.  Which would give him double the size of my feed.