Public Attention
Within the first few months of its creation Skull-A-Day was featured in a variety of major online media including BoingBoing, Make, Craft, Neatorama, TheAtlantic.com, VH1’s Best Week Ever Blog, USA Today’s Pop Candy Blog and was chosen as a Yahoo! Pick. On March 30, 2008, the New York Times mentioned Skull-A-Day as one of many blogs being transformed into books.
The December 2007 issue of Poetry featured one of the project’s skulls as a cover illustration.
On October 4, 2007, Etsy’s online magazine The Storque featured Noah making a large lace skull (#109) in their offices. The video was subsequently chosen as a YouTube Featured Video on February, 11th, 2008.
Current TV’s Show Me Your Richmond program features a segment on the making of a felt skull patch (#193) which was then given to the show’s host.
On October 10, 2008, Noah Scalin was a guest on The Martha Stewart Show. He showed several of his original skull pieces, discussed the book Skulls, and made potato stamp skulls with Martha in a craft segment.
Print media have also given attention to the project including articles in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, FHM Germany, Step Magazine, Penthouse, Girls and Corpses, and Make.
At the 12th annual Webby Awards, Skull-A-Day was given 2008 People’s Voice Award for Best Personal Website.
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