Eddie Villanueva is a Designer at Southwest Strategies with a passion for design as well as the desire to use his skills towards an innovative and useful purpose. Villanueva finds that good design is not only about beauty, it has to work. He likes to keep it simple and get to the root of the problem to come up with the best solution. Villanueva believes that there is nothing more fulfilling than seeing companies grow through the power of design, and that is something he strives for in his everyday work at Southwest Strategies. He is committed to staying current in the design landscape and constantly challenges himself to learn more.

Villanueva’s design experience ranges from working as an inhouse designer at Competitor Group to working on a variety of design projects for Rock n Roll Marathon, VeloNews Magazine, Brooks Running, United Airlines and Westin Hotels. He also has an agency background having worked as a UX/UI Designer at local respected agency Made by Grizzly. He contributes as a visual design independent contractor for a variety of local companies and organizations with work ranging from branding, web design, interaction design, print design and video/animation.

Villanueva double majored in graphic design and marketing at California State University, San Bernardino.