Food doesn't just delight in delicious snacks and meals -- there are a whole crop of designers, artists and photographers using the tasty medium to create some of the strangest and most awe-inspiring designs we've ever seen. Using everything from fish scales to orange peels to chocolate, check out these 6 wacky yet sustainable examples of how people are playing with food -- and creating something awesome while at it!

Fantastical Photographed Scenes Pay Tribute To Food

Photographer Matthew Carden creates fantastic miniature landscapes that revisit healthy eating choices. From a bug’s perspective, Carden creates playful moments using fruit, vegetables and small human figures in a ¨Small World¨. Here we realize the beauty in everyday life and eating.

Biodegradable Designs Grown From Dried Orange Skins

Israel-based Ori Sonnenschein loves experimenting with food waste and everyday objects. His latest adventure is ‘Solskin Peels’, a collection of objects made from tangy orange skins that are biodegradable, locally sourced, cheap, water-resistant and smell like heaven.

Spectacles and Other Decor Made From Fish Scale Plastic

Royal College of Art‘s new graduate Eric de Laurens unveiled a series of objects using a smelly technique he developed himself while studying in his final year. Cups, reading glasses, goggles and a fishy table decoration were made using a recycled and innovative material that he calls “fish scale plastic”.