Edward Dwornik Grew up in Prince Georges County, Maryland and Cool Spring, Delaware and came to Newark to attend the University of Delaware in 1976. Ed left college after 1 year, traveled the county and started work as an apprentice (clean-up boy!) in at a silk screen operation in Newark, Delaware in 1978. Ed worked his way into production and remained in the screen printing business for 4 years until taking a job in offset printing sales.
Once in the sales arena, Ed began to expand his scope of work to include graphic design, using freelance designers, and direct mail, working with letter shops and mailing houses, while continuing work in offset production, camera work and maintenance part time.
Ed was early to embrace Mac-based graphics as a way to increase the design tools available to designers (and to shorten turn around times).
With the increasing rise in the use of desktop computing, Ed also saw the possibility of targeting marketing messages through versioning and personalization.
As a key account representative for the Eastman Kodak Company, Ed was responsible for design, printing, direct mail and fulfillment for pharmaceutical and agriculture companies and academic institutions at their New Castle, Delaware facility.
With the increasing speed and quality of copiers and the advent of digital presses and display printers, Ed made the move to a full service approach to marketing support and publications services. (Don't tell the clients what you do, ask them what they need!)
When Jeffery Durham, a long time friend from Ed's silk screen days and top performing manager at Kinkos, asked Ed to start a business offering a full range of design, display and printing services, they founded Aztec in 1998.
The company has settled into two locations in New Castle County with 17 coworkers and produces 2.2+ million in work annually.
Aztec works in a wide variety of fields, including Art Reproduction, Printing, Graphic and Web Design, Photography, technical support for Litigation, Display Work, Mailing, Fulfillment and Print on Demand.
The company constantly updates to state of the art equipment and services and has put over a million dollars worth of new print capacity on the shop floor in just the last two years.
Ed has 4 children, Luke, Abby, Serene and Drake, enjoys the great outdoors, history, politics, anthropology and writing, listening to, and playing music.
