Swiss artist H.R. Giger (b. 1940), who designed the titular monster in Ridley Scott’s Alien, died Monday at age 74. Born in 1940 in Chur, Switzerland, “H.R. Giger grew up in very dark rooms ...

H.R. Giger was the guy who made me sleep with the lights on for years. The iconic Swiss painter and sculptor, who died Monday at the age of 74, reportedly suffered from night terrors for much of ...

By The Associated Press H.R. Giger - P Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R. Giger Museum in Gruyeres, western Switzerland, told the Associated Press that Giger died in a hospital on Monday.

Surrealist, sculptor and set designer HR Giger has died. He’s best remembered for stretching our minds with his stretched-head design for the creature in 1979’s original – very original ...

HR Giger, the Swiss artist best known for the biomechanical designs which defined the film Alien, has died following a fall at his home in Zurich. His hybrid creations combined mineral ...

HR Giger drew on demons of the past to provide an unsettling vision of the future. As Taschen publishes a new book of his work, the writer and critic Andreas J Hirsch looks at how the Swiss artist ...

You might not know the name, but you probably know the work: H.R. Giger created some of the most powerfully creepy visuals in Hollywood's history, including animals and props that forced some ...

HR Giger, who has died aged 74, was a painter, sculptor and set designer and the man responsible for the nightmarish, teeth-snapping, acid-dripping creature in the film Alien. Set in a nearish ...

It's no easy thing to give birth to a monster – ask Mary Shelley. The late artist HR Giger did just that with his landmark work on Ridley Scott's celebrated sci-fi film, Alien. Giger’s hideous ...

BERLIN (AP) — 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.