El Ultimo Grito is the creative partnership of Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo. Founded in 1997 in London where they worked until April 2007, they have now relocated their studio in Berlin, and live between the two cities. El Ultimo Grito’s work continuously researches our relationships with objects and culture, exploring them across disciplines in a wide variety of projects which range from interiors to graphics. Their work has been widely published, awarded and exhibited in temporary and permanent design collections.
Rosario Hurtado was born in Madrid in 1966. She coursed studies in Economics at Alcala de Henares University in Madrid, before moving to London in 1989. She studied Cabinet Making at the London College of Furniture and completed her BA in Industrial Design at Kingston University. Since 1999 she is a principal lecturer at the Design Department of Goldsmiths University in London. And Since 2006 she is a Senior Design Research Fellow at Kingston University.
Roberto Feo was born in London in 1964 but grew up in Madrid, Spain. He coursed studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Complutense Univesrsity in Madrid, before moving to London in 1990. He studied Furniture Design at the London College of Furniture and completed his MA in Furniture Design at The Royal College of Art in London. Since 1999 he is a principal lecturer at the Design Products Department at The Royal College of Art in London. And Since 2006 he is a Senior Design Research Fellow at Kingston University.
Awards and Competitions
2008 Shortlisted Designs of the Year, Design Museum (UK)
2006 Red Dot Award in Lighting Design (D)
2005 Stanley Picker Fellowship (UK)
2004 Shorlisted Finalist Jerwood Applied Arts Prize (UK)
2001 Shorlisted Finalist Design Week Architecture and Interior Design Awards (UK)
2001 Shorlisted Finalist FX International Architecture and Interior Design Awards (UK)
2000 Peugeot Design Award Furniture (UK): Winner
1999 Blueprint/ 100% Design Award (UK): Winner
1999 Peugeot Design Award Furniture (UK): Winner
1998 Blueprint/ 100% Design Award (UK): Winner
1997 Blueprint/ 100% Design Award (UK): Winner
Collections
MOMA, New York 2007
Kulturhusset, Stockholm 2005
Manchester Art Galleries, Manchester 2002
Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London 2001
Röhsska Museet, Sweden 2000
Crafts Council, London 1999
British Council, London 1999
Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam 1999
Science Museum, London, 1998
Exhibitions
2008 HAPPY END 10 procesos de diseno @ Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Sapin (collective)
2008 ‘Prototypes & Experiments’ @ Aram Gallery, London, UK (collective)
2008 RED @ Conran, New York, USA (collective)
2008 El Ultimo Grito Installation @ Bombay Sapphire Gallery, Berlin, DE (solo)
2008 El Ultimo Grito ‘Berlin Year One’ @ Appel Design Gallery, Berlin, DE (solo)
2008 Spain ‘Showtime’ @ Via Tortona, Milan, IT (collective)
2008 ‘Designs of the Year’ @ Design Museum, London, UK (collective)
2008 NOWASTEEUR public installation @ ARCO/IFEMA, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2007 JUST IN > Recent Acquisitions from the Collection @ MOMA, New York, USA (collective)
2007 ‘Nowhere_NowHere’ @ Galeria Sargadelos, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2007 ‘Objetos y Obstaculos’ Installation @ La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2007 ‘Nowhere_NowHere’ @ Galeria Sargadelos, La Coruna, Spain (solo)
2007 Public Installation ARCO/CasaPasarela Madrid, IFEMA (solo)
2006 ‘Make Believe’ @ Palau de la Musica, Valencia, Spain (solo)
2006 Tagged #7 El Ultimo Grito @ Casa dos Campas, Fundacion Maria Martinez Otero & Xunta of Galicia, Pontevedra. (solo)
2006 ‘Open Your Mind’ @ Museum Minguzini, Milano, Italy (collective)
2006 ‘Make Believe’ @ Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, London, UK (Solo)
2005 ‘New Craft’ @ ‘Experimeta’ Architecture Bienale Lisbon, Portugal (collective)
2005 ‘Extra Ordinary’ @ Kulturehusset, Stockholm, Sweden (collective)
2005 ‘Sit’ @ Geffrey Museum, London, UK (collective)
2005 ‘Joinedupdesignforschools’ @ Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (collective)
2004 Jerwood Prize @ Crafts Council, London UK (collective) touring UK until Sep 2005
2004 ‘Rotations’ @ Aram’s ‘New or Experimental Gallery’, London (Collective)
2004 ARCO: ‘Spanish Design’ @ ARCO Feria de Muestras de Madrid.(Collective)
2004 ‘Brilliant’ @ Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK (collective)
2004.05 ‘Import – Export’ (British designers working with foreign companies) @ British Council: New Dehli, Sydney 2005, Finland 2005 and Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2006
2003 ‘SHOWROOM’ Instalation @ Carnaby Street, London, UK. (El Ultimo Grito + Griffin + Random)
2003 ‘No(?)Logo’ @ Selfridges, London, UK. (El Ultimo Grito + Griffin)
2003 ‘SHOP’ @ Surface2Air, Paris, France (El Ultimo Grito + Griffin)
2003 ‘Digital Print: a new generation of surfaces’ @ Milan Trienale, It. (collective)
2003 ‘Objetar’ @ FAD convento de los Angeles, Barcelona, Spain (collective)
2003 El Ultimo Grito ‘the evolution will not be televised’@ Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (solo)
2002 ‘It aint over ‘till the fat lady sings’. El Ultimo Grito for Anura @ La Feltrinelli, Milan Italy (solo)
2002 ‘Off Scale / Moroso’ project for ‘Off-Scale’ 50 years of Moroso. Milan, Italy. (collective)
2002 El Ultimo Grito: ‘2001 una odisea en el espacio’ @ Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2001 ‘Me, You, Us, Them’ 4 installations @ Bloomberg central offices in London (solo)
2001-2003 Great Expectations Exhibition (Curated by The Design Council) @ New York Festival Grand Central Terminal, New York, USA then eight-city tour of North America and Canada finishing in Los Angeles at the end of 2002. Extended to Shangai, Tokyo, Melbourne and Sydney. (collective)
2001 Lateral Design in the City, transforming the mundane @ Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. UK. (collective)
2001 Minor Works @ Design Museum, London. UK (Collective)
2001 An Industry of One: Designer-Makers in Contemporary Britain @ Crafts Council, London. UK (Collective)
2001 Home Sweet Home. A touring exhibition organised by The British Council @ Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Copenhagen, Denmark. (collective)
2001 DRIVE IN, Cologne. Germany (Collective)
2000 El Ultimo Grito @ Trico .Tokyo. Japan (solo)
2000 Childsplay @ TwentyTwentyOne. London UK (collective)
2000 Hidden @ Frozen Fountain NL (collective)
2000 Woody at Contemporary Applied Arts, London. UK (collective)
2000 Six Moments @ Design Museum, London, UK. (collective)
2000 Value Judgements, a travelling exhibition around UK (Cleveland Crafts Centre, Bluecoat Display Centre and Ruskin Gallery)
2000 el ultimo grito @ Garage Regium, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2000 Hidden @ Fiera de Milano, Italy
2000 Torino Bienale of Art, Torino. Italy (collective)
2000 Creative Britain @ Stilwerk, Berlin. Germany. (collective)
2000 Stealing Beauty @ Mead Gallery Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry. UK (collective)
2000 ‘Waschtag’. Cologne. Germany (collective)
1999 - 2000 Material World @ Design Museum. London. UK (collective)
1999 - 2000 A Grand Design, @ the Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK (collective)
1999 – 2000 Design 4 Living 2 @ The Design Centre, Barnsley Design 2000, Yorkshire. UK (collective)
1999 ‘El Ultimo Grito’ @ Nolita Apartment, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1999 El Ultimo Grito presents: ‘one, maybe two, sometimes three’ @ Designers Block London UK (solo).
1999 Project for Jam & Sonny at Haus, London. UK (collective)
1999 ‘A Bit of S&P’ at Vessel. London. UK. (collective)
1999 ‘Lost and Found’, a touring exhibition organized by The British Council (Collective)
1999 ‘El Ultimo Grito presents: British Weather Attracts Strange Visitors’ @ Lighthouse. Glasgow, UK. (solo)
1999 ‘El Ultimo Grito presents ; Nobody flies this way’ (@ Same, London. UK (solo)
1999 Concept House @ Ideal Home Exhibition, London. UK (collective)
1999 ‘Stealing Beauty’ @ Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). London, UK (collective)
1999 ‘Premillenium Tension’ @ British Council. Cologne, Germany. (collective)
1988-1999 Design 4 Living @ The Design Centre, Barnsley Design 2000, Yorkshire. UK (collective)
1998 ‘El Ultimo Grito’ @ Trico, Tokyo, Japan. (solo)
1998 ‘Form and Function’ @ Generous Miracles Gallery. New York, USA. (collective)
1998 ‘El Ultimo Grito’ @ The Crafts Council. London, UK. (solo)
1998 el ultimo grito @ Salone Satellite, Milano, Italy.
1998 ‘El Ultimo Grito’ @ Andrea Leenarts Gallerie. Cologne, Germany. (solo)
1998 Review Gallery, Design Museum. London, UK. (collective)
Videos
‘NOWASTEEUR a laborious poem‘ commissioned by IFEMA, Directed by Zaunka 2008
’20 minutos_Diseno de Sobra’ commissioned by Basurama, Directed by Zaunka 2008
‘El Ultimo Grito en La Casa Encendida’ commissioned by La Casa Encendida, Directed by Zaunka.2007.
‘British Weather Attracts Strange Visitors: el ultimo grito’ commissioned by The Lighthouse.1999
‘Medios’ installation at the Spanish Institute in London. 1995
Book > Authored
‘Deigns for All’ edited by Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado, published by Optima, Madrid 2008. ISBN978-84-691-3870-0
Co-authored texts by Roberto Feo & Daniel Charny to ‘Design Classics’ published by Phaidon Press ISBN 0 7148 4399 7
‘Arte:Industria’ text by Roberto Feo in ‘Arte / Industria: Isaac Diaz Pardo’ by Luis Munoz, Juan Rodriguez y Xose Diaz, published by Laberinto de Paaixons, Galicia 2001, ISBN 84--932280-0-1
Book > Features
Drawing for Designers: Drawing Skills, Concept Sketches, Computer Systems, Illustration, Tools and Materials, Presentations, Production Techniques by Alan Pipes. Published by Lawrence King, London 2007
Artifact Edited and Publisehd by Victionary. English Edition 2007
Furnish edited by: Robert Klanten, Sophie Lovell and Birga Meyer. text: sophie lovell. publisher: die gestalten verlag
year: 2007
Point of Purchase edited by Marta Serrats, MaoMao Publications, Barcelona 2007 ISBN978-0060893514
OFFJECTS Concepts and desingns for a change of century by Òscar Guayabero, published by Museo de les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona 2006
1000 New Designs and Where to Find Them: A 21st-Century Sourcebook by Jennifer Hudson. Published by Lawrence King, London 2006.
International Design Yearbook 2006. Edited by Ptricia Urquiola. Lawrence King, London 2006
Joinedupdesignforschools 2005 F.& J. Sorrell, Merrell Publishers, London 2005
Designers on Design by Max Frazer & Terence Conran. Published by Conran Octopuss, London 2005
Collydoscope by Nigel Coates. Published by Lawrence King, London 2004
International Design Yearbook 2004. Marcel Wanders. Lawrence King, London 2004
ExtaCity by Nigel Coates. Published by Lawrence King, London 2003
The Coffee Table Coffee Table Book Published by BlackDog Publishing, London 2003
Objetar compilated by Martin Ruiz de Azua, published by FAD, Barcelona 2003
What Is Design Today? By George H. Marcus, published by Harry N Abrams Publishers, New York 2002
Spoon (10 curators, 100 designers, 10 design classics). Published by Phaidon Press, London 2002
Creative Island, by John Sorrell, Laurence King Publishers ltd, London 2002
The Eco Design Handbook by Alastair Faud-Luke, Taschen, London 2002
Designing the 21st Century, by Charlotte and Peter Fiell, Taschen, Köln 2001
Industry of One, David Redhead, 2001. catalogue
6M Six moments, 2000, Design Museum London, catalogue
2000
Big Torino 2000 Biennale arte emergente, Edicioni Lindau, Italy 2000
100 Years of Royal College of Art 1999, curator Claire Caterall.
British Design, Penny Sparke, to be published by Howard, to be one of a series which will include others on Scandinavian Design, Italian Design, German Design and American Design
International Design Yearbook, 2000, Lawrence King, London 2000
Designer Know How Book, Anne McKevitt, Publisher BBC Worldwide
Lost and Found, critical voices in new British design, 1999, Birkhäuser / The British Council
Stealing Beauty, British design now, 1999, ICA catalogue,
International Design Yearbook, edited by Jasper Morrison, 1999 volume 14, Lawrence King, London
New British Design, 1998