The Nightmare Before Christmas, Saving Sandy Claws
Julia Hogendorf
Toy Design
About this Item
- Title
- The Nightmare Before Christmas, Saving Sandy Claws
- Date
- 2025
- Summary/Artist Statement
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Julia Hogendorf is a Queens-based illustrator and designer with a passion for character-driven toy design and imaginative worldbuilding. Inspired by Eastern European folklore, childhood nostalgia, and the quiet magic of nature, her work blends soft surrealism with intricate detail. With a background in illustration and toy design, she creates playful, story-rich visuals across traditional and digital media—bringing whimsical creatures and dreamlike environments to life through thoughtful design and a love for narrative play.
- Toy Design Genre: License Game Concept Board
- Medium
- Digital illustration
- Course/Degree Information
- Course: TY 414 Games (Spring 2025, Semester 8)
- Professor: Steve Melick
- Program/Degree: Toy Design BFA
- In Exhibition
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2025 Graduating Student Exhibition - Toy Design BFA
- Rights
- In Copyright
- The copyright for this work is held by its author/creator(s). Usage of this material beyond what is permitted by copyright law must first be cleared with the rights-holder(s). This work has been made available online by the Fashion Institute of Technology Gladys Marcus Library strictly for research and educational purposes. If you are the copyright holder for this work and have any objections to this work being made available online, please notify us immediately at [email protected].
- Identifier
- FIT Repository ID: ty_000115
Citation
Hogendorf, J. (2025). The Nightmare Before Christmas, Saving Sandy Claws. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/634016
Hogendorf, Julia. The Nightmare Before Christmas, Saving Sandy Claws. 2025. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/634016
Hogendorf, Julia. "The Nightmare Before Christmas, Saving Sandy Claws." FIT Digital Repository, 2025. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/634016