Where Creativity Shapes
Visual Culture
This anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on the people, practices, and ideas that have shaped Graphic Design Technology at Takoradi Technical University, while looking ahead to the opportunities, challenges, and possibilities that remain.
Current Head of Department
Dr. Mrs. Betty Faniyan
(From 2025-)
The Department of Graphic Design Technology was carved out of the former Fine Art Department in 2008. It is one of the six (6) Departments in the Faculty of Applied Arts and Technology. It provides skills and knowledge-based programmes which develop students for employment in technical and artistic industries and which also equips students with the competences to enable them to pursue their own entrepreneurial ambitions.Currently, Prof. Ebenezer Kofi Enninful is the Head of Department.
Year of Formation & History
In 1992 the Polytechnic Law upgraded polytechnic education in Ghana to tertiary status, enabling Higher National Diploma (HND) programmes in Commercial Arts at Takoradi Polytechnic. In 2007 the Polytechnic Act 2007 (Act 745) confirmed academic autonomy.
In 2008 the Department of Graphic Design (now Graphic Design Technology) was created from the Fine Art Department to offer HND Commercial Arts (Graphic Design Option). Today it records the highest student enrolment in the Faculty of Applied Arts and Technology.
VISION
The vision of the Department is to churn out world-class manpower to provide excellent art education to support industries and to promote human resource development in Ghana and abroad.
MISSION
To provide tertiary education in the field of graphic design through the application of arts, and, also, to promote teaching and research in the graphic world.
GOALS
In line with its vision to create excellence in graphic arts, the following goals are being pursued:In its bid to contribute to Ghana’s ambition to build her human resource capacity, the Department provides and seeks to, through further research, improve its high standard competency-based technological and pedagogical approaches; and
To provide other related programmes through consultancy to enhance productivity in the graphic design industry.
OBJECTIVES
The Department seeks to:
1. Provide specialised skills to graduates to enable them to meet contemporary manpower needs at managerial, entrepreneurial and supervisory levels in the graphics industry;
2. Prepare students for employment in art industries in line with the current national poverty alleviation programme; as well as
3. Encourage skills in the development of local materials and resources in promoting small and medium scale industries.
Graphic Design Option
Higher National Diploma (HND) Commercial Art (Graphic Design Option)
One-Year Top-up and Four-Year pathways
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)
Graphic Design and Printing
Master of Technology (M.Tech.)
Past Heads of Department
Dr. Samuel Adentwi Bentum
(2008–2010)
Dr. Joseph Essuman
(2010–2011)
Dr. Mrs. Josephine Sarpong-Nyantakyi (2011–2013)
Dr. Dzidefo Letsa
(2013–2015)
Prof.George Brako-Hiapa
(2015–2017)
Prof. Ebenezer Kofi Enninful
(2017–2019)
Prof. Bartholomew Johnson Sebbeh
(2019–2021)
Prof. Kwadwo Essuman Amissah
(2021-2023)
Prof. Ebenezer Kofi Enninful
(2023–2025)
Achievements Highlights
Promotion of senior lecturers to Associate Professor, staff development (ten staff pursuing PhDs under TTU sponsorship), successful launch of new one-year B.Tech Top-up modular programme, curriculum review for re-accreditation, and community service projects including signage and materials donated to TTU Hospital and Whindo Health Centre.
30th Anniversary
Thirty years of training creative professionals, producing research that advances the industry, and contributing to Ghana’s visual culture. Celebrate with us.