Winning Projects

Extra Mile Design created a postcard based on the Ipswich Library's web site (also designed by EMD), which got inserted into the gas bills of everyone in town.

Extra Mile Design worked with the Joshua Hyde Library in Sturbridge, MA, to promote and coordinate events in seven towns in mid-Massachusetts in their "One Book, One Community" project.

Extra Mile Design clients win top awards at MLA Public Relations competition

May 22, 2005/Pepperell, Mass - The work of Extra Mile Design, an agency specializing in marketing and communications for libraries, was honored with two awards by the Massachusetts Library Association at the 17th Biennial Public Relations competition. Winners were chosen by a panel of independent judges from the public relations, press, and library fields. Over 120 entries were submitted in 16 categories

Extra Mile Design's work with the Ipswich Public Library on a campaign to promote the library's web-based resources received first prize in the "Advertising" category.

Extra Mile's coordination of a community-wide reading project and the development of a comprehensive marketing program earned top honors for the Joshua Hyde Public Library in the "Events" category.

"We are delighted to have contributed to these successes. Our public libraries bring such important lifelong learning opportunities and educational support to our communities that we feel it is a great privilege to be able to help them get the word out." said Susan Edwards, the principal of Extra Mile Design, and a former librarian herself.