Frederic Henri Kay Henrion, or ‘Henri’ for short, studied at the École Paul Colin, Paris. He emigrated to England in 1936. Working during WW2 in the UK Ministry of Information and for the US Office of War Information, he designed exhibitions, posters and publications. He was a true pioneer of corporate design in Europe, responsible for the image for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, British European Airlines, InterRent, Coopers & Lybrand, British Leyland, London Electricity Board. His firm Henrion Design Associates (1951), which became HDA International in 1972, did corporate identity projects for numerous leading international companies. He was the author/designer of AGI Annals (1990), the predecessor of this very book. Taught at the Royal College of Art and the London College of Printing. He was a president and frequently a board member of AGI, SIAD and Icograda. Henrion organized the annual Icograda Student Seminars in London (1974–90), an eagerly awaited event on the UK college calendar.