Long shadow a new trend after the flat design. The trend is impacting UI elements and icons the strongest, and designers also start using into other parts of website design and mobile user interface.

Long shadow design has been mostly used in icons and logos. Shadows live within the element canvas and often extend outside an object to the surrounding frame. Many of the long shadow concepts we are seeing come from projects where designers are looking for creative ways to build icons for Apple iOS 7.

As already told you! long shadow design seems to be an evolution of the flat design trend. Designers looking to create more depth but work within the concept of flat design have created a sort of middle ground with long shadows.

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50 Beautiful Long Shadow Examples in Flat Design

After the Apple iOS 7, most of the mobile user interfaces is turned into Flat Design. And next big thing coming in design trend is “Long Shadow“. As you might be able to imagine, this trend includes objects with disproportionately long shadows, and for some reason it looks absolutely fantastic.

Here’s a big list of long shadow examples in flat design that we picked up from dribbble.com, behance.net and all over the internet.

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Illustrated Bowiewolf with Long Shadow

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Cassette Tape

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Typography “Hello” with Long Shadow

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Matsebneesh Mobile UI

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Long Shadow Design

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Fox Icon

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Flat iPhone 5 Adobe Fireworks Template

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Rubee

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Social Media Icons

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Marlboro icon

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Twitter Long Shadow

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Dribbble long shadow

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Apple Long Shadow iOS icon

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Mobile company iOS App icon with long shadows

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Long Shadow App Icon

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SPARK – Long Shadow Icon

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Flat Icon Design – Long Shadows

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Long shadow Mail Icon

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Shoppinpal Icon with Long Shadow

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Designmodo logo with long shadow

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GDJ logo with long shadow

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Date App Icon

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YouPix Long Shadow icon

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Flat Long Shadow

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Flat magnify icon

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GIG App Icon

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Google Play – Long Shadow

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iOS 7 App Icon

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Sync is the New Save

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Crockhaus Icon

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Long Shadow Design – Superman Icon

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Flatbook

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MacBook Pro Longshadow

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iOS7 longshadow icon

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Flat Design Long Shadow

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Inner Outer Shadow

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FaceTime

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Cloud Icon with Long Shadow

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Dribbble Mobile App

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Minion iOS7 Icon

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Flat Icon “Frontend”

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We’re Hiring

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Palette Longshadow Icon

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webdevHH

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Flat Profile for Social Fashion Network – iOS app

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Long Shadow in typography

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Long Shadow Design

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Long Shadow – Google APN improved

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Long shadow love: iOS 7 icons

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Long Shadow is the New Flat

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