WAVVES & Best Coast - Chicago, IL, 2011

Anne Benjamin is the founder and principal designer of Mok Duk custom invitations. A Chicago native, Anne’s creative work as an illustrator, graphic designer, and printmaker lead her into the colorful world of invitation design. After earning a degree in graphic design from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Anne learned letterpress, screen-printing, and other print methods through the vibrant Chicago printmaking community. Her design sense is broad and playful, drawing from the art deco, art nouveau, and pop art movements, classic children’s book illustrations, Japanese printmaking, vintage animation, nature documentaries, and funny-looking animals.AThe unique aesthetic of Mok Duk invitations stems from Anne’s facility for hand-drawn type, organic and fluid shapes, the brushed line, and textured drawing styles.Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A roller or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas. Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface. It is also known as silkscreen, seriography, and serigraph.