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Dude Crafts

The Man's Guide to Practical Projects, Backyard Ballistics, and Glorious Gags

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Pub Date 2 Oct 2018 | Archive Date 9 Jan 2019


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Description

Dude Crafts is loaded with more than 50 slightly twisted, but somehow useful, projects that will keep crafty men out of trouble (or, sometimes, in it).

Whether making life easier with ingenious hacks or providing self-amusement, the 50 projects presented in Dude Crafts are sure to get any guy's creative wheels turning. These DIY projects will get you on the path to developing your own creations, and impressing your friends.

You'll learn how to: 
  • Craft an iPad cover from an old book
  • Build a metal forge out of a busted microwave
  • Cook a meal in the dishwasher
  • Re-purpose an electric saw into a cocktail blender
  • Fashion a Swiss army knife for your keys
  • Outfit an unsuspecting co-worker’s office chair with an air horn
Each project is accompanied by a parts list and step-by-step photo instructions to get you building; often by hacking subpar stock goods or upcycling discarded objects into functional works of art and conversation pieces. No matter how off-kilter the project may appear on the surface, it's sure to payoff as a useful tool, an art piece, the punch line to a practical joke or, best of all, a combination of all three.

Whatever the motive—to solve a problem, to play a joke, or for self-entertainment—Dude Crafts will get dudes off the sofa and into the workshop!
Dude Crafts is loaded with more than 50 slightly twisted, but somehow useful, projects that will keep crafty men out of trouble (or, sometimes, in it).

Whether making life easier with ingenious hacks...

Marketing Plan

Key Selling Points: Author Mike Warren’s 200+ Instructables posts have received more than 21 million views. Warren has 8,048 Instructables followers; his “Head in a Jar” and “Glow Table” Instructables each have more than 2.6M views Fun, functional, and oftentimes irreverent projects heavily tout the topics of reuse, upcycling, and hacks.  

Key Campaign Activity Publicity campaign to target DIY, craft, men-centric, home improvement and enthusiast media outlets Project excerpts at select blogs/websites, newspapers Pursue tie-ins with Instructables.com and author’s page at the site which nearly 10K followers and over 25,000,000 views  

Consumer: Quarto Knows / Quarto Homes social media Video trailer; videos at Mike Warren’s You Tube channel (over 6,600 subscribers) and Instructables.com Quarto Knows B2C email campaigns Giveaways at Goodreads, select blogs and websites  

Publicity/Media: Short and long lead publicity campaign targeting DIY, Home Improvement & Craft enthusiast media Partner with high-traffic blog/website Instructables.com Short and long lead publicity targets to also include consumer general interest outlets and publications, including Forbest Online, HGTV Online, DIY Network Online, PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Quartz Men-centric media outlets: GQ, BroBible, Gear Patrol, Primer, Made Man, Bullz-Eye, Acquire, Guyism, Men’s Journal, Esquire, Cigar Aficionado, Smooth, Best Life, Man Tripping, Target craft outlets for reviews and excerpts, including: MilkMade, Make Online, Keep Busy, Dotdash, Primary DIY & Home Improvement Outlets-Magazines: Do It Yourself, House & Home, Log Home Living, This Old House, Popular Mechanics, Make, Instructables, Curbly, Man Made DIY, AcmeDIY.com, Remodelaholic, Top Mom, Dad & Parenting Blogs and other outlets: How To Be A Dad, Moms Who Think, Geekdad, Single Dad Laughing, Gays With Kids, Mocha Dad, Dad or Alive, Dadland.com, Bobblehead Dad, Top dailies – Huffington Post, USA Today, Miami Herald, NY Times, NY Post, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, LA Weekly, Sacramento Bee, Toronto Star, Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette, Minneapolis Star-Tribune Syndication: King Features Syndicate, Tribune Content Agency Home Improvement/Hardware/DIY Industry-Trade Outlets: Hardware Retailing, Hardware + Building Supply Dealer, Hardware Merchandising.

Trade Review: Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, Bookish, Shelf Awareness, Kirkus, BookTrib

Key Selling Points: Author Mike Warren’s 200+ Instructables posts have received more than 21 million views. Warren has 8,048 Instructables followers; his “Head in a Jar” and “Glow Table”...


Available Editions

EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9780760357781
PRICE US$19.99 (USD)
PAGES 208

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