Danilo Villanueva & Makina & Co

Danilo has been in the advertising industry for 15+ years now working in multinational agencies like Saatchi, TBWA Chiat Day, Leo Burnett, BBDO and MRM/Mccann. He's gained global experience working in Los Angeles, Dubai, Beijing/Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York. He has built local and global integrated campaigns for major brands like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Visa, Emirates Airlines, Sony, General Motors and Tencent.

In 2014, he founded a company called Makina & Co where he's won several design awards from organizations like A' Design Awards, European Product Design Awards, International Design Awards, New York Product Design Awards, Muse Design Awards, London Design awards, London International Creative Competition and others. He has served as jury member for the One Club's ADC 103rd Annual Awards, London Design Award, Muse Design Awards, Adstars/Madstars and others.

His work for Makina have gained recognition from local and international design, watch-expert, news publications like Esquire, Designboom Italy, Monochrome Watches Amsterdam, Time and Tide Watches Melbourne, Worn and Wound USA, Watchpro London, Watch Life News Tokyo, ANCX Philippines, The Manila Times Philippines and more.

Makina means machine - derived from the Spanish word maquina. Makina is born in the Philippines. As a filipino watch brand, we are committed to putting out only eccentric and unconventional designs providing the watch industry bold alternatives since 2017