Activities
PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
The survival and indeed success of the handicraft industry in Ghana
is dependent on the market potential of the products both in the local
and international markets. ATAG assists in ensuring this by either modifying
the products that are already being produced or by developing new product
lines.
ATAG has gone a step further by hosting regular intensive workshops
run by foreign experts in international Product Design and Development
with a foreign perspective but geared towards the local as well international
markets. Similarly, ATAG also contracts, and works with local design
consultants, simultaneously building its Field Staff expertise in Product
Design, Development and training craftsmen and women on a consultancy
basis even outside the country. This in turn encourages trained artisans
to impart their knowledge and skills to other artisans nationwide.