Murray H. Henderson

About Murray Henderson (1930 - )

After graduating from Cooper School of Art in 1953, he was hired by the Pesco Products Division of the Borg-Warner Corporation in the advertising and technical publishing department. The department consisted of 17 employees and the work was divided about 50/50 between business advertising and military manuals for the U.S. Air Force and NATO. His job was to illustrate exploded views and related drawings for Service Manuals and Parts Catalogs. He received his first security clearance on a “need-to-know basis” and started illustrating patent drawings for the Office of Patent Council. He left Pesco after ten years to join NASA.

A good time to work for NASA, we went to the moon!

NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio (Now the John Glenn Research Center)

Henderson was hired to replace the retiring Section Head of the Scientific Illustration Department that produced the drawings required for the engineers and scientists in publication of their research findings, patent drawings, presentation slides and animation for NASA video demonstrations. His security clearance was upgraded to Secret.

Another part of his job was keeping track of 12,000 illustrations that literally took days to locate. In 1968 he became interested in computer science and took all the NASA classes he could take, he created a computer file system and wrote an instruction manual Graphic Information Processing System. His program married three different NASA scientific classes into one program that could locate quickly any one of the 12k drawings. This was before desktop computers.

Move to Hawaii January 1974

He left NASA after ten years, and he and his wife moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1974. His wife was hired by the Hawaii Newspaper Agency as an illustrator in the promotion department and he free-lanced out of their apartment. This soon evolved into their own business that they named Studio 94 after their apartment number, 94.

Studio 94 the Graphics Design Shop

Between his wife’s graphic designs, his technical illustrations, patent and trademark drawings, the free-lance business brought in an enough business to rent their own office. They made a good team with her creative skills and his technical abilities. They made things work and soon hired additional artists.

Move back to Ohio

After 20 years, they sold their business to one of their employees and moved back to Ohio where they built their home that included two offices to continue on with Studio 94 until his wife passed in 2001. He then wrote and illustrated his first book Preparing Trademark Drawings and Specimens in 2001. Subsequently, he published Illustrated Patent Drawing Standards in 2011; Patent Drawing Rules in 2016; Guide for Logo and Trademark Drawings 2020 and he is presently working on two more books.