PHOTOS: The Most Delicious Green Designs at the Berlin Taste Festival

Berlin recently hosted <a title=" Delicious, Brutal and Erotic Designs Around Food at Berlin Taste Festival " href="http://www.direktorenhaus.com/blog/taste-festival/.html" target="_blank">Taste Festival</a>, a 10 day event that celebrated food and creativity. Held at the historic Direktorenhaus, the food design event featured a products exhibition that included <a title="Delicious, Brutal and Erotic Designs Around Food at Berlin Taste Festival " href="http://www.direktorenhaus.com/blog/taste/program/cosa-kitchen.html" target="_blank">workshops</a>, <a title="Delicious, Brutal and Erotic Designs Around Food at Berlin Taste Festival " href="http://www.direktorenhaus.com/blog/taste-festival/ayako-suwa.html" target="_blank">performances</a>, dinner events, and an outdoor market alongside the pier of the River Spree. Fifty internationally-recognized designers, artists, food curators, chefs and producers -- including graphic designer <a title="Delicious, Brutal and Erotic Designs Around Food at Berlin Taste Festival " href="http://www.direktorenhaus.com/blog/taste/program/leticia-credidio.html" target="_blank">Leticia Credidio</a>'s candy-covered furniture -- demonstrated the importance of adding good and sustainable design to our everyday meals.

We were at Taste Festival for Berlin's Culinary Misfits presentation, they turn odd shaped vegetables that farmers cannot sell into delicious dishes.

Debbie Wijskamp presented an organic recycled newspaper ware collection and Lenneke Wispelwey's porcelain pieces!

Art historian Adriana Hartley created a collection of ceramic tableware around the idea of recycling old pieces in an aesthetically pleasing way.

Royal College of Art graduate, Marre Moerel presented Food on the Table, a cruelty-free and brutal ceramic collection of tableware made from casted animal organs, such as cow hearts, pig intestines, sheep brains, and bull testicles.

Art historian Adriana Hartley created a collection of ceramic tableware around the idea of recycling old pieces in an aesthetically pleasing way.

Terrariums can blow our minds, especially when they are suspended on a hot-air balloon indoors, like this one from Lauren Coleman.

Folding, biodegradable and inspired by origami, Marco Bazzola's paper-based Easy Eating are great for transportation of food for al-fresco eating.

Graphic design and animism was also present at Taste, Michela Grisi and Nicholas Bertini created Vegetablove is a project consisting of a series of illustrations that give voice and free expression of feelings to fruits and vegetables.

Christoph Toenges and Elena Goray exhibited their beautiful bamboo bench called “Pile Isle” made using no glue nor screws and sitting at Taste's gardens.

German Valentin Loellmann recycles old wooden furniture legs and create lean pieces of furniture enclosed in a thick polyester skin.

Japanese performance artist Ayako Suwa amazed commensals at the Direktorenhaus' loft with erotic micro-food designs that aimed to evoke feelings through eating an exotic mix of tastes in small size.

There was a lot to experience, see and taste at this fantastic event, check here if there is a Taste Festival in your own city!