Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Giger rose to prominence in Zurich with a series of posters and paintings that intertwined ...

Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who rendered the titular character in Alien through his art, died in Zurich on Monday. He was 74. For the 1979 hit film Alien, Giger designed the creature’s appearance – from ...

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 ...

The aliens have landed at the Independent fair in New York—or at least, the work of science fiction legend H.R. Giger has. On the booth of New York gallery Lomex, looming above the galleries like some ...

With each new Alien instalment, the eldritch mystery that came with the HR Giger-designed xenomorph has all but evaporated The alien, which gives Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror classic its title, appeared ...

Alien was first released 40 years ago this month. Helen O'Hara explains how the movie's monster became a cinema icon – and brought unexpected fame to the shy Swiss artist who created it In the late ...

FILE - In this June 29, 2007 file picture Swiss artist H.R. Giger poses with two of his works at the art museum in Chur, Switzerland. H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi ...

BERLIN (AP) - The 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. Sandra Mivelaz, administrator ...

H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist designer and artist who died Tuesday at 74, is being remembered primarily for his visual contributions to the 1979 movie “Alien” and its sequels. His conception for ...

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 ...