In 1992, the Polytechnic Law under Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) Law (1992) upgraded polytechnic education in Ghana to tertiary status.
This gave rise to the running of Higher National Diploma (HND) in Commercial Arts Programmes in Takoradi Polytechnic.

The vision of the Department of Graphic Design Technology is to equip through training and come out with world-class graphic design manpower to provide excellent art education to support industries and to promote human resource development in Ghana and abroad.

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.

managerial/entrepreneurial skills that will make them self-reliant in the graphic design world of work and thereby create more job opportunities for others to help grow the economy.
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The Department of Graphic Design Technology is one of the departments within the Faculty of Applied Arts and Technology.