Career
After leaving school he went to Paris, and worked in textile design sweatshop before studying with poster designer Paul Colin. In 1936 he moved instead to England, to work in poster design. He designed a Modern Architectural Research (MARS) Group of architects.
During Second World War he was interned as an alien but subsequently worked for the Ministry of Information designing posters for campaigns like Dig for Victory, Aid the Wounded, and Grow More Food.
After the war he became art director at Contact Books and also designed two of the pavilions for the Festival of Britain. Subsequently he worked in the then emerging field of corporate identity - ensuring that a company’s visual identity is consistent throughout every medium it uses to communicate with the public.
His clients included British European Airways, KLM, Tate & Lyle, The National Theatre, and the Post Office. Henrion lectured at the Royal College of Art from 1955 to 1965 and was head of Visual Communication at the London College of Printing from 1976 to 1979.
He was elected a Royal Designer for Industry in 1959, and was appointed Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1951, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1985.
Henrion"s archive and library are located at the University of Brighton Design Archives. Henrion married the British sculptor Daphne Hardy in 1947. But she left him in the 1970s.