As It Happens7:36'He was a strange man' Alien art director remembers H.R. Giger Surreal artist H.R. Giger changed science-fiction film forever with his work on Alien. The reclusive artist was not ...

Giger’s art practice was molded from an early fascination of “skulls and mummies and things like that,” as he told Time Out magazine in 2009, as well as his own childhood fears. Born in 1940 ...

Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien, has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall.

Giger helped bring the artwork from his 1977 book Necronomicon to life using boiled animal bones – the creature’s ribs – car parts and plasticine.

Swiss artist H.R. Giger at his house in Zurich, Switzerland. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien, has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall ...

This is the Giger Bar, the legacy of the famed Alien designer and sculptor H.R. Giger, who passed away on Monday at the age of 74. If the sight of the cathedral-like architecture of this coffee ...

Giger provided visual design assistance to a score of additional movies, sending designs to 20th Century Fox during Alien 3’s tortured development and providing a huge amount of design work for ...

Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger is best-known in the United States for his lurid monster designs, most notably the psycho-sexual nightmare creatures featured in Alien and Species.

The man whose surrealist artwork led to the creation of Ridley Scott's Alien has died. HR Giger, who was 74, died in hospital in Zurich after suffering injuries from a fall.

Giger continued to work on the Alien franchise, but his art found its way into corners of pop culture as diverse as the video game Dark Seed, the cover of Debbie Harry’s solo album Koo Koo, and ...

Giger’s art practice was molded from an early fascination of “skulls and mummies and things like that,” as he told Time Out magazine in 2009, as well as his own childhood fears. Born in 1940 ...