Design Onscreen is a non-profit foundation dedicated to producing, promoting and preserving high-quality films on architecture and design.

Design Onscreen:

• distributes its programming as widely as possible, via multiple media formats and channels, to a national and international audience;
• promotes a greater general understanding and appreciation of Post World War II design;
• informs and elevates the ongoing “conversation” among professional architects and designers; and
• works in a collaborative manner with museums, schools, universities, professional design groups, film societies and other educational organizations;
• supports only the highest quality programming utilizing the most creative minds in film production.

Founded in 2007 by Denver documentary enthusiasts Jill A. Wiltse and H. Kirk Brown III, Design Onscreen has five completed films to its credit, with two more currently in production or pre-production. These films include: Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes (premiered in May 2009 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art); Journeyman Architect: The Life and Work of Donald Wexler (winner of an Audience Award at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival); William Krisel, Architect (recently honored with three 2011 Telly Awards); and Desert Utopia: Midcentury Architecture in Palm Springs. Design Onscreen’s latest film,Contemporary Days: The Designs of Lucienne and Robin Day, premiered in May 2010 at Washington DC’s National Geographic Museum, and has toured festivals worldwide including London, New York, Chicago, Moscow, Glasgow, Cape Town, Newport Beach and Montreal.