Brick magazine merges the genres of hip hop and punk together, art director Hayley Louise Brown stated that 'I wanted to make a hip hop publication that physically embodied a punk zine'. As there are similarities between both, be that between the lyrics, the venues and the artists themselves. The design had a good balance between pictures and images, and there was a lot of focus on the design being readable. The design also appeals to all people, people who knew everything and people who knew nothing. Hip hop seems to get the most love on tumblr, youth culture is very accessible these days and it seems to be everywhere. 'You don't need to go anywhere further than tumblr to reference an entire culture'.
Within the publication design, the idea of tumblr could be referenced within the layout and also the layout and design of zines, especially a lot of ideas and layouts can be inspired by 'Brick' magazine, which is most contemporary and unique.
Punk zines are often casually produced, and are created by a much more DIY approach and aesthetic which ultimately created a thriving underground press. Zines are seen as amateur, usually handmade, and always independent. They were the blogs, comment sections, and social networks of their day. They included interviews with bands, reviews of records. They had letters pages, opinion columns, news briefs, scene reports, best-of lists, classifieds, and sometimes even Flexi discs: floppy little records with exclusive songs from one or more of the bands, bound right into the middle of the zine.
This independent, unique style of a zine can be experimented with the design of the hip hop publication. Creating a more DIY, amateur aesthetic and also innovative design and one offs pieces of design.
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