A look inside the Blue Zones
Passing the
years of age

The Blue Zones

There are 5 places on earth where people get frequently older than anywhere else in the world. Scientist have turn them Blue Zones. And have spent decades trying to understand what they do differently to achieve longer lifespend. Loma Linda (USA), Nicoya (Costa Rica), Sardinia (Italy), Icaria (Greece) and Okinawa (Japan).

The 9 rules of life

These are the 9 most important things to do in life to live as long as possible.

1.
Move naturally

2.
Purpose

3.
Down shift

4.
80% Rule

5.
Plant slant

6.
Wine at 5

7.
Belong

8.
Loved ones first

9.
Right trible

The Story of...

Read the stories of these two amazing people. Discover what their recipe is for a long and healthy life.

The Project

Theme

This project was inspired by the 2021 theme The Greater Number of the Dutch Design Week. Inspired by the history of this theme, I was brainstorming a lot about different perspectives to approach this project. But when I came across all the inspiring stories of the small cities with extremely strong man and women, I just knew I needed to do something with this. The theme was all about climate change, less waste, less production and these are things that are not even mentioned by the cities at all. Because it’s normal for them to produce their own food and don’t over-consume. All the people in the small cities were getting 90 easily and some of them even cross the 100 years of age. The great number of 100 was also perfectly to complete the theme around it. After some research it became clear to me that there’s been a lot of research done in this cities, but the outcome is very easy every single time. It just contains the most important things in life. Care about family and friends, take it easy and relax a little bit, produce your own food, drink some wine and more. These things are so simple, that it’s almost unbelievable it actually works.

Photos

The photos I used are amazing (if you ask me). I came across some high quality photos of 10 people who are in the late 90’s which I immediately used on the homepage. Those people came from the island in Greece which perfectly can be used for the introduction of the interface.
The next section - the Blue Zones world map - doesn’t contain any pictures. I wanted to set the focus of te map and the text that is shown on the page.
The page after that one contains the 9 rules of life. Every single point has a photo that’s being used as a reference to each specific rule. Most of them are logic, but the image can really tell the story her.
The last one contains a beautiful collection of photos I collected of two main characters of this story I chose. Because there was much to find about them, I could setup a “personal” page about them very easy.

Conclusion

So enjoy the beautiful sources of great stories in this interface. Learn from the people who lived around 100 years old and see what you can change in your life to change it up a little bit, to add some more years to your life.

David van Rumpt

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