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 ...

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, his museum said Tuesday.

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.

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, his museum said Tuesday.

He later wed Carmen Maria Scheifele Giger, who runs the HR Giger museum in a medieval castle in Switzerland. The museum, which opened in 1998 also houses Giger's private art collection, including ...

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 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.

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 ...

The Xenomorph does not make sense, no matter how long we look at it, how many times we rewind the DVD, how closely we study Giger’s concept art. Giger at home in Zurich, 1995. EPA/Martin Ruetschi ...

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 ...