Quake, Lisbon's Interactive Earthquake Museum, aims to tell the devastating story and impact of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake - the most destructive earthquake to ever hit Europe - and to increase earthquake awareness in Portugal. Even though Portugal is geographically very close to a fault line, and there’s a startling high probability of another mega earthquake hitting the country, levels of education and preparedness are alarmingly low.
Quake, Lisbon's Interactive Earthquake Museum, created 1755 Quake, a typeface that visually simulates how buildings collapse under seismic forces. By using the typeface to dramatise educational and historical messages, the work communicates in a visually arresting and memorable way, that is much more likely to galvanise action in its audience.
