Hansruedi «HR» Giger lived near the centre of Zurich. He was known for his dark artworks and was a pioneer of «biomechanical art» (the fusion of man and machine). For a long time, his talent did not ...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus. Alien stands apart from other science fiction films by delivering truly unique and believable extraterrestrial creatures that are not ...

H.R. Giger's work casts an unimaginably long shadow. The Swiss surrealist, who died in 2014 at the age of 74, spent a formidable portion of the 20th century carving out a reputation for himself as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hans Ruedi (February 5, 1940 – May 12, 2014) was a Swiss painter, whose style was adapted for many forms of media, including record albums, furniture and tattoos. The Zurich-based artist was best ...

The School of Visual Arts has many distinguished alumni, but only one (so far) is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Chris Stein (1973 Fine Arts), who in 1974 founded the band Blondie with singer ...

We talk a lot about the filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott, mostly because the man really has created some iconic pictures and continues to prove how good at the craft he really is. One of the nice things is ...