I began working with the matchbox rather than just the matchstick. I looked at building a flame using matchboxes. These are just some thumbnail sketches on the matchbox idea....

These are the thumbnail drawings of how my poster could look like!

Narrowing it down to just two thumbnails....!

Some typefaces that I looked at to use on my poster, I felt that simple was the way to go in this project.

 

This was one of my first print tests, there is a few changes from this first print out to the final poster...