F.H.K Henrion was born on April 18 1914 in Nuremberg Germany, Henrion got his British Nationality in 1946. He was trained as a textile design in Paris. He worked from 1936- 39 under Paul Colin in Paris and London. During World War II, he became a consultant for exhibitions division of Ministry of information and US Office of War information in London. He worked as an editor for BOAC, Complete Imbiber, Contract, and Future magazines.
In 1951, He established his own consultant agency, Henrion Design Associates, focusing in corporate identity, poster exhibitions, packaging, magazine and book design. One of his most notable work was KLM (Dutch airline). He was collaborating with W.Brinkgreve of KLM. The logo still looks fresh and new after more than 60 years. It would be very difficult for any designer to redesign this logo. The only thing that changed for this logo was the color. Now, they only use light blue for the logo.
His social posters are very strong and direct, it impacts everyone who sees it and his commercial poster, its very fun, friendly and colorful. A very talented designer indeed. His posters won 5 major awards at the international poster exhibition in Vienna.
Henrion and Alan Perkins designed Design Co-ordination and the Corporate Image in 1966. It compiled with many different big company logos such as KLM, IBM, Olivetti, Pirelli and many more. He became a president of AGI and Master of Faculty of RDI in 1972-1973. He designed the AGI annals in 1989, showing AGI's member work and the story of the people behind it. He also designed Top Graphic Design and Design Coordination and Corporate Image.