We lost one of our greatest inspirations when H.R. Giger died the other day. But his artworks will live on and yield more creative bounty in the years to come. To celebrate his life and career, here's a showcase of the most incredible (and unnerving) artworks of H.R. Giger.
Astro-Eunuchs, 1967
The cover of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 1973 album, Brain Salad Surgery
(via Progtracks)
Li I, 1974
(via CGSociety)
Li II, 1974
(via Vniz)
Behemoth
Drawings for Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune, an unsuccessful attempt from the mid-1970s to adapt Frank Herbert's 1965 classic
The basis for the Xenomorph in Alien: Necronom IV, 1976
Carmen I
A Derelict Alien Cockpit, 1978
Aliens, 1978
Alien landscape, 1978
Monster V
An Alien egg, 1978
Facehugger, 1978
Erotomechanics V
Erotomechanics VII
Erotomechanics IX
Female Magician
Bed Station
Illuminatus I
Necronome I
Biomechanical Interior
Mirror Image
(via Eircom)
Aleister Crowley
The Tourist IV, 1982
Atomic Children
Landscapes
Landscape XVII
Landscape XVIII
Landscape XIX
Biomechanical Landscape III (Trains)
Anima Mia
Biomechanoid
Darkseed, a horror point-and-click adventure game H.R. Giger worked on, released for Amiga and DOS in 1992.
The cover of Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, by Danzig, 1992
(via Album-Art)
Birth Machine, 1999
(via Matěj Stuchlík)
Two Giger bars, Chur and Château St. Germain, Gruyéres, Switzerland
(via Wikimedia Commons 1 -2 - 3, H. R. Giger and Amy Dianna/Flickr)
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The pictures above are from Museumsyndicate and Vniz, expect when noticed otherwise.