citylikeyou — New Delhi / Khyati Trehan

Khyati Trehan is an independent graphic designer and 3D visual artist from New Delhi, India. Her work is textural, playful, emotive and driven by an ache to make the intangible tangible. Khyati’s career has seen her work across disciplines, drawing inspiration from the context of the work and often exploring the edges of all things visual for the likes of the Oscars, New York Times, New Yorker Magazine, Apple, Adobe, Absolut, Instagram and Snapchat. Khyati was one of Print Magazine’s 15 New Visual Artists under 30 in 2017, was chosen as the Artistry Creator of the Year at Adweek’s Creator Visionary Awards, won the ADC Young Guns 19 and most recently, made it to the Forbes 30under30 India List.

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Graphic Designer Artist Illustrator Visual Artist

Current city: New Delhi

Other cities: Berlin Munich New York

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New Delhi / Restaurant

Casual, light-filled eatery serving traditional Bihari cuisine in airy quarters with garden tables. Don't leave Potbelly without trying the Saboodana Tikkis.

New Delhi / Monument

If you only visit one monument in Delhi, it should be this one in my books, especially in the evenings. Humayun's tomb is more than a singular tomb. There are lovely lawns, neighbouring structures, and a massive terrace with a view of the sprawling greenery and a sunset if you plan your trip well. It also happens to be right across Sunder Nursery, which means your evening is sorted.

New Delhi / Bookstore

Faqir Chand and Sons bookstore, located in Khan market in Delhi, is beloved and iconic. The book sorting system is like a secret recipe, only known to and mastered by the people that work there (who happen to be super nice).

New Delhi / Park

Sunder Nursery is the perfect heritage park for a weekend stroll when Delhi weather permits. The park is sprinkled with flower beds, green patches, water bodies, winding paths and mini monuments.

New Delhi / Art Centre

Black Box Okhla is performance art space and residency that offers a blank canvas to theatre productions that build worlds within it and how. Plays here to are no ordinary performer/audience set ups. Instead, the seating on three sides of the stage makes for an intimate viewing experience. (Photograph of ‘For the Record’ directed by Nikhil Mehta, who also happens to be the founder of BBO, taken from his website.)

New Delhi / Cafe

Perfect brunch place with great coffee and shockingly good pizzas (which isn't typically breakfast food I know, but a good excuse to extend your sunday afternoon to a late pizza lunch). They also have a dog menu and are pet friendly! The couches all have plug points built in at the bottom which makes me regret not getting my computer and spending the whole day here at every visit. Gets packed quick on Sundays though!

New Delhi / Market

Amar Colony Furniture market is the place for vintage furniture pieces and hidden antique gems, all piled up under a blue tarpaulin. This is the kind of place that’s easy to lose your whole day in, in the best kind of way. Bargaining isn’t particularly easy here, unless you buy several pieces from the same seller. You’ll find an assortment of distressed colonial styled pieces thrown in the ringer with stuff that feels inspired by Indian royalty.

New Delhi / Art

Serendipity Arts Foundation is an arts and cultural development foundation where artists often share the outcome of their month long residencies with the foundation. Their publications are available to purchase on the ground floor, and spaces in the basement are generally occupied by immersive exhibits. This one combines temporary structures, light, sound design and video art and was the work of the very talented Aabshaar Wakhloo.

Berlin / Cemetery

This chapel at Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery hosts a light installation by THE James Turrell at sunset on specific days. It begins with a 30minute intro and needs a booking to visit.

Berlin / Cafe

What looks like a plant nursery from the outside, is both, a plant nursery housing two rescued Amazonian parrots and a hidden cafe serving up some of the loveliest cakes and cuppas in all of Berlin. Brace yourself fir occasional screeching parrots flying around though that only adds to the charm of Blumen cafe.

Munich / Club

The Bahnwärter Thiel is an open air techno club and music venue filled with graffiti-ed containers, art installations and even a train coach. Think ‘colorful vibrant DIY apocalyptic steam punk’

Munich / Area

Gärtnerplatz is s a central square in the Isarvorstadt district. The square has a lovely fountain surrounded by flowers and benches. The square draws a lot of crowd so you may not find a bench to grab, but there are plenty of cafes around for backup.

Munich / Attraction

The White Rose was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students (and one professor) in front of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The ‘monument’ isn’t really a monument. The leaflets show up as tiles embedded in the pavement in front of the university, and commemorate the movement brilliantly. Poignant and moving.

Munich / Bridge

I'm partial to this spot because I lived right across it for over a year and owe several beautiful evenings to it. Grab a beer or a gluhwein (depending on what time of the year you've landed here) from either of the two kiosks, each at the ends of this bridge, walk from the side closer to humboldtstrasse down to the river and read a book, cycle along the river, have a picnic on a lush green spot with friends or just bask in the sun. Or do none of these and soak in the view from the bridge.

New York / Restaurant

The perfect pizza in my books. Felt like a sweet spot between New York style pizzas and the classic Neapolitan

New Delhi / Photographer

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