HR Giger dead

[sandman67]

Artist and designer HR Giger has died after falling at his home on Monday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27390345

The master and originator of the bio-mechanical gothic style, his work is probably best known through his work with Ridley Scott and the makers of Alien. Gigers designs are all over the franchise, but particularly the tituar monster and alien ship of part 1. His work on films however went much further, and his set designs can be found scattered through a slew of film franchises, for example DUNE and SPECIES.
Gigers bio-mechanical art also went on to leak into furniture and jewelry designs, clothing, etc. I own several Giger designed armor rings from the early 90s, and his posters adorn many a goth bedroom wall or T shirt.
A great, if somewhat twisted, talent who will be sadly missed by many fans.

RIP mate and thanks for the bad guys you helped bring to life.

[Kraka's Dad]

He also designed the album cover and internal artwork for Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson Lake & Palmer.
He will be missed.

[caller]

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The album cover features distinctive Giger monochromatic biomechanical artwork, integrating an industrial mechanism with a human skull and the new ELP logo (also created by Giger). The lower part of the skull's face is covered by a circular "screen", which shows the mouth and lower face in its flesh-covered state. In the original LP release, the front cover was split in half down the centre, except for the circular screen section (which was attached to the right half). Opening the halves revealed a painting of the complete face: a human female (modelled after Giger's then-partner Li Tobler[7][8]), with "alien" hair and multiple scars, including the infinity symbol and a scar from a frontal lobotomy. The two images of the woman are very similar, but the outer image (in the circle) contains what appears to be the top of a phallus below her chin, arising from the "ELP" column below (the second painting originally had the complete phallus, but this was removed at the insistence of the record company[9]). The back cover was solid black with the album title in plain white lettering.

The paintings for the cover are titled "Work No. 217 ELP I" and "Work No. 218 ELP II". The original acrylic-on-paper paintings were lost (or stolen) after a Giger exhibition at the National Technical Museum in Prague, which ended 31 August 2005.[10] Giger's ELP logo, using a circular enclosure of the "E" and upper portion of the "P", around a column formed by the "L" and the vertical of the "P", became a standard for the band and has been used extensively since.[11] Giger states in his book that Emerson, Lake & Palmer never paid the bill for his artwork for this album.

Source: Wiki

A great piece of art for a great album!