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Limited Edition BYTE Magazine Cover Illustration prints
Limited Edition 16″x20″ and 11″x14″ prints of BYTE Magazine cover illustrations by Robert Tinney are still available. (Please be aware that no prints display the BYTE logo, and all prints have a white border of up to 3.5″ for the 16″ x 20″ prints.)
Media iMPRESSIONS
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In Memoriam
Robert Frank Tinney, of Washington, Louisiana, passed away peacefully on February 1st, 2026, at the age of 78.
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Article: “Robert Tinney: Byte Magazine and Beyond”
Excerpt from Adam Rowe’s article in 70s Sci-Fi Art, which includes images of the BYTE illustrations mentioned here, as well as an extensive gallery of some of Tinney’s non-BYTE illustrations. Robert Tinney’s a big name in retro tech. Here’s a collection of lesser-known facts and art from the famed Byte magazine cover artist. Robert Tinney…
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Article: “Robert Tinney – The Man Who Painted The Future”
A Conversation with Robert Tinney For anyone who stood mesmerized in front of a newsstand in the late 70s or 80s, the cover of BYTE magazine was an oasis of imagination. In an era defined by beige boxes and blinking cursors, one artist single-handedly gave the digital revolution a soul. That artist was Robert Tinney.…
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Article: “The Genesis of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): A Historical Overview”
Tinney’s “Smalltalk” illustration featured on the Aug. 1981 cover of BYTE Magazine became the defacto signboard for object-oriented programming.
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Article: “This 1981 Computer Magazine Cover Explains Why We’re So Bad at Tech Predictions”
“Tinney’s work was imaginative, technically superb (he is a master of the airbrush) and, sometimes, very funny. Byte lost a little bit of its soul when the publication started phasing out his work in favor of standard-issue photos of standard-issue computers.” – Time Magazine, April 2014