There are a lot of posts out there looking back at different aspects of SXSW. On the fashion front, Rachel Arthur tries to pull out some trends in a guest point on The Business of Fashion.

She highlights the rise of 3D printing; the calls for greater contribution between disciplines citing panels from Lego, PepsiCo, and Frito-Lay; and probably the most interesting point for me, the move away from a focus on newly-created mobile apps to discussions around hardware (such as Google’s talking shoe).

Part of the beauty of SXSW is, of course, meeting up with digitally-minded people from across the sector. But, without doubt, the most powerful insights are gleaned by stepping outside the fashion bubble and learning from other industries. The challenge is being able to distill down the key takeaways.

You can read the full blog post over on BoF.

Looking behind the scenes at SXSW Music isn’t that difficult, everything is on show at changeover time, sound-checks and band prep are done on stage, and the whole environment is incredibly honest. But there’s a lot more going on. Conrad Schoenleber talks through his experiences of organising the CrowdNoize showcase last week on City Pages.

12 p.m.: Our first act, locals, the Chalice, is supposed to go on. Half of our speakers are missing, and the sound guy couldn’t be more clueless. My partner, Patrick Welby of CrowdNoize calls his in-house sound tech to sprint over. He arrives and immediately starts working damage control. So far our SXSW showcase is a huge success.

The diary for the rest of the day is online, and makes for fascinating reading.

This year at SXSW Music saw the inaugural Grulke Prize awarded to three acts. Set up in honour of SXSW’s long-time musical director Brett Grulke who died last year.

The winners were:

Developing US Act: Haim.

Non-US Act: CHVRCHES.

Career Act:  Flaming Lips.

Congratulations to all three acts, who start off what we expect to be a long lived and prestigious award.

Now that the wonderment that is all things SXSW is complete, are you rested and well enough to start all over?

In case you missed it (and all that was going on, I’m sure a lot of you did) both SXSW Eco and SXSW V2V had launch parties during the March event.

SXSW Eco
SXSW Eco takes place from October 7–9, 2013 at the Austin Convention Center. This is a move from the AT&T Conference Center used last year and the Hilton Downtown the inaugural year (they grow up so fast!), and is currently accepting Panel Picker submissions for the event.

Public voting on SXSW Eco Panel Picker will run from Monday, May 13, 2013 through Friday, May 24, 2013 (11:59 PM CST).

SXSW V2V
SXSW V2V takes place Sunday, August 11, 2013 through Wednesday August 14, 2013 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is currently accepting session, speaker and mentor ideas through April 5, 2013 and V2Venture entries until May 17, 2013.

So, now that you’re all rested and back to normal, are you ready to get your Southby back on?
We are!

Here are more highlights from the SXSW schedule, as chosen by the SXSW Baby! team:

•  Really, go home!

Here are more highlights from the SXSW schedule, as chosen by the SXSW Baby! team:

•  Softball and BBQ at Kreig Field (weather permitting)

•  Go home

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It’s your final night of SXSW and we really mean it this time, so Interactive badge holders can stop grumbling that it finished Tuesday (because it doesn’t). So a bit more flavour of the fun on offer at SXSW before we head out to Sixth for one last bag of memories

• Kii Arens (www.lalalandposters.com)
• Fredara Hadley (www.jooksi.com)
• ‘If Your Dad Doesn’t Have A Beard…’, by The Beards (www.thebeards.com.au)

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