The Oscar-winning Swiss set and creature designer of Ridley Scott's "Alien" died following a fall in his Zurich home. By The Associated Press H.R. Giger - P Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R.

H.R. Giger, the Swiss Surrealist who was responsible for the otherworldly visuals of Ridley Scott’s science-fiction classic Alien, died May 12 from injuries suffered from falling down the stairs of ...

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Surrealist painter Hans Ruedi Giger, whose designs inspired the creature in Alien and whose otherworldly and often grotesque art graced album covers for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Debbie Harry and ...

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 ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger, designer of the monster from classic 1979 sci-fi film Alien, has died, his museum confirmed to Reuters. He was 74.

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. But there’s a lot more ...

Surrealist artist H.R. Giger - one of the driving creative forces between 1979's Alien - died today in Zurich after complications from a fall. A 2010 interview published by Wired traced Giger's ...

Action is at the core of the new Aliens Fireteam Elite third-person shooter, but the scenery is lifted straight out of a feature-length film. The environments pay great respect to the macabre ...