List of past and present clients:

... when asked, some said:

Catherine Pike - Art Director - Toronto Star:
VictoR ALWAYS comes up with the goods! Usually on tight deadlines!.

Jill Tedhams - Business Law Today Magazine:
VictoR is the artist to go to when you’ve got impossible content you need illustrated.
Plus he gives you fun color choices.

Joanne  Utley - Newsday:
VictoR gad is one of my favorite illustrators, both because of his talent and
our easy working relationship. His ideas are always fresh, always clever; and
definitely not something you'd see elsewhere. I love the way his mind works.
And he gives me multiple sketches for every story - it's always difficult to choose.

Every time I print out his sketches, I find myself walking around the room to
share his wonderful wit with my co-workers. We marvel at his ability to so
perfectly illustrate abstract ideas about technology and computers.

He is a joy to work with - it seems like he's at the next desk rather than 350
miles away in Toronto. I phone or e-mail to check his availability, then e-mail or
fax him the story and we're off. He e-mails me sketches and then the final
illustration. It works seamlessly...
And I always enjoy having the color variations from which to choose".

Eric Nelson - Art Director - The Globe and Mail:
...Yet another ink-stained wretch is about to add his opinion to the list of highly intelligent quotes from designer types around the world who have had the pleasure and honour of working with victoR gad... Ahem..:

VictoR gad is one of those rare illustrators who can provide the most provocatively lateral visual solutions to the most relentlessly linear manuscripts.

Sarah Battersby - Prentice Hall Canada:
VictoR is a true artist. His animal drawings for a series of our French language texts
have a life of their own, and rival the quirky and graphic inventiveness of the best
Dr. Seuss creations. Some of them are still on my wall.

His ability to decipher a convoluted art manuscript and come up with something fresh
and fun was always amazing. We love victoR!

Jonathan Hankin - design director - Upsize:
Each time I assign a story to victoR, I try to imagine which angle he is going to take ... and I am always wrong. I'm not quite sure what's going on inside his head, but I like it! Even if it is a little scary sometimes.



Lim Stubbington - Art Director - CLB Media Inc.:
VictoR's work consistently adds "teeth" to our editorial content.
Never mundane and sometimes a little unsettling.

Dmitry  Panich - Electronic Musician:
I think his work is provocatively disturbing, with a colorful surreal twist. I like it.


Will Koteff - Editor - Custom Communications & Special Projects - Rogers Publishing:
It’s always a pleasure to use victoR’s artwork in my projects. His style is interesting, innovative, and fun, and his illustrations always convey the right idea for the work that they are being used with.


Allyson Nitckowitz-Ross - Nitckowitz-Ross Design:
I LOVE vR's very fun and unique style. Best of all, he's so easy (and fun) to work with. I continue to work with him.... I think it's been well over 10 years!.


Steve Adams - Art Director - SWA Designs:
VictoR's ideas are too imaginative, creative and thoughtful.


Julie Fanning - Art director for The New Physician magazine:
I always know I will get a creative interpretation of any subject
with an image that's done by victoR.


Devin Slater - Art director - The Globe and Mail:
VictoR gets it. He’s approachable, reliable and I’m always pleased with the result.
A talented illustrator and a pleasure to work with.

Lisa Weber - Image Partners:
I find the illustration of victoR gad so fresh and unique
that no one has been able to copy it ...I wish him continued
success because he always makes me (AD) look good.


Sam Miranda - DV Magazine:
To the point, representative, humorous,
and always highly entertaining!


Byron Georgeff - Piccadilly Communications:
VictoR's combination of funky yet strategic thinking combined with
excellent customer service and a great sense of humour make him
a deadly effective creative resource.


Doug Beach - New Media Magazine:
Truly nasty...


Tami Herrick - Needham - Onstage:
VictoR always comes up with something I never would have thought of...


P. Aldana Groundwood Books:
VictoR gad is one of the smartest, most original and
talented people working in any field in Toronto today.


Eva Absher Schantz - SHRM magazine:
Amazing...


Julie Cherry - The New Physician:
VictoR is a really cool artist...


Stephani Finks - Pohly and Partners:
Very cool. Tech-y but approachable.
Very victoR. Great colors and visually appealing...


 Dmitri Eroshenko - Web Hosting Magazine:
VictoR gad's ability to create masterpiece quality works of digital art
based on the complex and abstract business concepts is mind boggling.
There is nothing this crazy guy can't do. VictoR's style is as rare and
sudden as it is beautiful. His imagination seems to be limited only by
his Mac's processing power.
Every single person who picked up the issue of Web Hosting Magazine
with victoR gad's illo on the cover reacted instantly and consistently
with "WOW! THIS IS SOOOO COOL! Who did this?"

...

... victoR gad illustrates:

... great variety of subjects (with some bias towards information technology) making them more accessible and symbolically universal... Works mainly for clients in USA, Canada and some European countries, but for unknown reason not in Australia or New Zealand;

... awarded many times in Canada and abroad:

... his proffessional life can be divided into:

... two periods: ''wet' and ''computeral''. First one - dominated by painting (watercolours/acrylics), traditional illustration (mostly editorial and for children) and book design. Second - shaped under heavy influence of computer media. His clients included The Financial Post, IBM Canada, Canadian Doctor, Canadian Business, almost all Canadian book publishers and countless magazines;

... some exhibitions starting with the most recent:

WHEN CYNIC MEETS SKEPTIC (with sculptor Andrew Pawlowski)
. . . Polished Arts + Art Square Gallery (Toronto);

A SUBTLE ART OF SCAVANGING - PKO Gallery (Toronto);

WALK-IN PORTFOLIO - PAS Gallery (New York);

VICTOR GAD FROM FAX - Pekao Gallery (Toronto);

... and many earlier shows, all with funny titles:
- BOUTIQUE - A Joke in 40 Pictures
- 13 GLOOMY PORTRAITS FOR SALE
- RHETORICAL LANDSCAPES
- SHORT PIECES FOR SPARROWS
- INCREDIBLE NEED TO SHOW OFF - “Unfinished" Collection;

... before that:

Graduated from some little known school with M.A. in graphic design;