Long Shadow Poster in Adobe Illustrator - Step-by-Step Tutorial
Design a long shadow poster in Adobe Illustrator using offset paths, the Shape Builder tool, blended type and clipping masks for a clean flat-design layout.
This Adobe Illustrator tutorial walks through the full long shadow poster workflow from a blank artboard to a finished print-ready design. You'll build the base rectangle, offset the path to create the inner border, separate the border with the Shape Builder tool, then set the headline type and duplicate it before running a blend to fake the long shadow trail. From there you'll add and paste the secondary type, then lock the whole composition together with a clipping mask so the shadows stay confined to the artwork area. Everything stays as editable vector, so colours, type and shadow length all remain adjustable right up to export.
Use this long shadow poster for events, product launches, services promotion, social media campaigns, brand posters, t-shirt graphics, magazine ads and any flat-design project that needs strong typography and a bold geometric backdrop.
Every technique here transfers to your own poster design work - shapes, colour, type and finish all in Illustrator. Subscribe for more tutorials.
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🕑 VIDEO CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Create a new document
0:35 - Fill the rectangle
1:00 - Offset the path
1:20 - Separate the border
1:45 - Shape builder tool
2:25 - Text
3:00 - Duplicate Text
3:40 - Blend Text
4:25 - Add Text
4:40 - Paste Text
5:10 - Clipping Mask
5:40 - Outro
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