now you can't ever unsee it

To go along with yesterday’s piece on pervasive visual trends à la ‘gram, we’re reupping last month’s Vanity Fair article How Publishing’s Floral-Print Trend Came to Rule the World’s Bookshelves, which parses out maybe why all these (women-centric, usually) books are looking so leafy & wallpaper-y lately.

One reason for these maximalist book covers that’s particularly interesting: publishers are consciously trying to steer clear of just sticking stock illustrations of women/girls on their covers and calling it a day. That stuff is “too representational,” as a Penguin Books designer puts it in the article. So it’s less this, more this.

What do you guys think of that change? Do you personally like having a lil visual nudge to picture protags/places/plots, or do you like to dive in and cast everything yourself?

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