H. R. Giger

Hans Ruedi Giger (pronounced: GEE-ger) (born at Chur, Grisons canton, February 5, 1940) is a Swiss painter best known for his design work on the film Alien.

Pop culture

Movies

• Alien
• Species

Work for recording artists

• Celtic Frost
• Magma
• Emerson Lake and Palmer
• Deborah Harry (from Blondie)
• hide
• Danzig
• Atrocity
• Black Sun Productions
• Ko?n's Jonathan Davis commissioned Giger to sculpt his microphone stand
• Carcass used Life Support 1993 for the cover of their 1994 album, Heartwork.

Interior decoration

• Giger Bars in Switzerland's Chur and Gruyères
• Museum H. R. Giger in Gruyères

Computer games

• Dark Seed and its sequel, both adventure games for the PC. They were also released for the Playstation in Japan.

Giger is often referenced in pop culture, and especially in works of the science fiction and cyberpunk genres. Novelist William Gibson (who wrote the original script for Alien³) seems particularly fascinated, presenting in Virtual Light a minor character, Lowell, with New York XXIV tattooed across his back. As well, Yamazaki, a secondary character in Idoru specifically describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

Related Topics:
Science fiction - Cyberpunk - William Gibson - Alien³ - Virtual Light - Idoru

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