Awards & Honors

Awards Show Dedicated to Side Projects Names Inaugural Winners

WindowSwap, a site that lets people virtually look out of someone else's window, takes Best in Show

A series of illustrations that depict what fast-food mascots might look like if they regularly ate their brand's menu items won in the visual arts category.Álvaro Palma
By Minda Smiley & Doug Zanger

November 3, 2020

This summer, freelance creatives Josh Weiss and Sunita Deshpande started The Side Show, an awards program exclusively focused on honoring side hustles and projects. More than 500 submissions later, the two have—with the help of a robust judging panel—chosen the inaugural winners.

Minda Smiley

Minda Smiley is deputy Agencies editor at Adweek.

Doug Zanger

Doug Zanger is Adweek's Agencies editor, focusing on creativity and agencies.

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