Robert Tinney, who painted iconic Byte magazine covers, RIP
Gouache applied by airbrush — that was the secret behind the impossibly smooth, vivid covers Robert Tinney produced for Byte magazine across 80-plus issues from 1975 into the late 1980s. Each one took roughly a week to finish after phone calls with the editors about that month’s theme. The results owed more to René Magritte an…
