For more than 40 years, the Swiss surrealist confronted his nightmares by making them ours. Swiss artist H.R. Giger (b. 1940), who designed the titular monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien, died Monday at ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. H.R. Giger poses with a prototype of his Xenomorph design for 'Alien.' The artist hoped to feature translucent version of the ...

H.R. Giger poses with his many creations in his Zurich, Switzerland, home in 1995. As this year’s documentary “Jodorowski’s Dune” showed, Giger’s early-’70s collaboration with Chilean-French ...

Cult artist H.R. Giger was a big deal right after ALIEN was released in 1979. All of my friends ran out and bought his books Necronomicon and Giger’s Alien. His “biomechanical” designs had the ...

Largely known for his Oscar-winning set design of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi flick Alien, the Swiss surrealist artist, who died this past year at the age of 74, also had a fruitful career as a niche ...

The first Facehugger design for "Alien" was initially much larger and more grotesque. Thankfully H. R. Giger scaled it down ...

H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist artist who designed the monster and sets for Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi pic “Alien” died May 12 at age 74. An employee of H.R. Giger Museum has confirmed Swiss media ...

In 1994, Alien concept designer HR Giger was asked to design a Batmobile for Batman Forever. His spindly, pincer-like design is an oddly organic take on Batman’s tech, but still an improvement over ...

H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist artist whose works of sexual-industrial imagery and design of the eponymous creature in the “Alien” movies were known around the world, has died. He was 74. His death ...

The brilliant Swiss artist H.R. Giger, most famous for the creature design in Alien, has died at the age of 74. Daniel is IGN's UK Games Editor. He sometimes writes about movies, too. You can be part ...