A personal interpretation of the many examples of packaging that safety matches left behind in the Victorian era. 
These “Earlybirds” will light your hopes and dreams with an instant flame. 

Everything you see here has been sketched and designed by my own hand on Ps. I couldn’t decide on a final version so I exported two: cyan and red. 

Did you know that matches motivated one of the biggest working class movements in the 19th century? In 1888 hundreds of women went on strike to complain against their labor and health conditions at the Bryant & May match factories in London. This led, eventually, to the ban of white phosphate and contributed to the improvement of labor conditions in England.