H. R. Giger, Artist Behind Alien, Passes Away
H. R. Giger, the surrealist artist whose creations helped spawn the eponymous Alien films, has passed away aged 74 from injuries sustained in a fall. Giger, who was born Hans Rudolph in an Eastern Swiss town of Chur in 1940, became an artist from a relatively early age after having studied architecture and industrial design. […]