Fast Company

How H.R. Giger, The Weirdo Designer Behind “Alien,” Became A Household Name

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 ...
Digital Spy

HR Giger, Alien creator, dies at 74

Born Hans Rudolf Giger in Chur, Switzerland, he studied Architecture and industrial design in Zurich before finding fame in the art world with his book Necronomicon, a compendium of HP ...
CNN

H.R. Giger, who designed the creature from ‘Alien,’ dies at 74

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 ...
CNN

The nightmarish works of H.R. Giger, the artist behind ‘Alien’

Chances are, H.R. Giger has given you a nightmare. The Swiss-born painter was responsible for creating one of the most iconic monsters in the history of the human imagination: the xenomorph, the ...