RIP : H.R. Giger

Very sad news to report today: Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger, best known for designing the iconic, unforgettable xenomorphs from the Alien franchise, has died from injuries sustained from taking a fall down some stairs. Honestly, that sounds like the setup to a bad joke, but it’s all too true, a tragic end for a massively talented man who helped shape the landscape of big-screen science fiction. Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R. Giger museum in Switzerland, announced that Giger died in a hospital yesterday, May 12, 2014. He was 74.