The Department of Design and Creative Media is founded on the belief that the development of a nation is achievable through design as a vehicle for industrialization, development of human-centred and environment-centred products, marketing and the overall pattern of creative economy. We live in a world where opportunities for designers are increasingly dependent on flexibility of approach within well-established disciplines. The department mixes cutting-edge with traditional technologies to make the learning experience grounded and innovative to play leading roles in the national development of Kenya, East Africa and beyond.
Manufacturers of products and providers of services, both private and public, are increasingly recognizing design as an integral part of their offering and a means of differentiation. More than ever before, designed products and services are shaping a worldwide material and non-material culture and influencing the quality of our lives and environments. This is because design has come to encompass an extraordinary range of artefacts, applications, techniques, philosophies and values, all of which influence our experience and perception of the world around us. Hence, the choices we make today in design education and practice will have a significant and enduring effect on the quality of our future lives and environments.
The Department of Design and Creative Media focuses on training individuals who will generate products characterised by both originality and appropriateness.  It houses a combined force of creative and visual, technological and innovative disciplines which will provide both academic and professional development to learners.  These disciplines will function towards developing a vibrant image for the University through the following cluster:

1. Communication Design
2.  Interactive Media and Design
3.  Environmental Design.
4. Product and Industrial Design

1. Communication Design

Communication Design is concerned with design and technology of visual communication through images and text. It encompasses the world of print, everything from creating the design to producing it in various forms on numerous types of materials.

Career prospects
Communication designers can work as, but not limited to: Business Analyst; Graphic Designer; Web/App Designer; UX Designer and/or Researcher; Interactive Media Designer; Advertising/Brand Manager; Sales and Marketing Specialist; Public Relations Specialist; Meeting/Event Planner; Media Planner; Social Media Manager; Photojournalist/journalist/broadcaster/media/film/video editor; Art/Design Director; Communication Manager; Design Education and Researcher; Human Resources Specialist; Project Manager and Self-employment

2. Interactive Media and Design

The programme is uniquely tailored to meet both open and industry standards regional and global design industry.  In keeping with industry trends and needs, the study applies theoretical aspects of Interactive Media studies, to its more practical applications.

Career prospects
An interactive media designer creates graphics and animations for various media outlets and electronic devices, such as a cell phone app, a web-based computer game, or interactive website. Multimedia designers create engaging presentations of images and information for various media including the Web, television, movies, and video games.

3. Interior and Environmental Design

Interior and Environmental Design will include overall interior design and decoration, includes design analysis of inner space, space crafting, and the use of an ecological intelligence towards light and colour, materials and furnishings, landscaping and land development design. Exhibition and display, as part of the program will include Genres like Avant-Garde, Three-Dimensional Art and Installation Art modes, as examples of new aesthetic approaches within environmental communication and Design. Courses such as facility programming, fengshui, sacred geometry and human-centred Design and how these approaches can be used to create, innovate, effective, and sustainable solutions for change, will also be included

Career prospects
When you become an interior designer, you have the option of specializing in any niche or sub-category of the industry. With some careful thought and an informed decision, you can create a career path that will be both lucrative and successful. CAD (Computer-Aided Design) Specialist; the niches in interior design are extensive, and most of them are areas you'll probably enjoy working in. Career prospects in the industry are as follows: interior designer, commercial interior designer, Creative Painting; Stage Set Designer; Kitchen and Wardrobe Design Specialist; Furniture Designers; Lighting Designers; Healthcare designers.

4. Industrial and Product Design

Product design describes the process of imagining, creating, and iterating products that solve users' problems or address specific needs in a given market. The key to successful product design is an understanding of the end-user customer, the person for whom the product is being created. Product design course trains student to make new and improve products to be sold by a business to its customers.

Career prospects
Exhibition designer; Furniture designer; Interior and spatial designer; Product designer; Computer Aided Design technician; Clothing/textile technologist and Colour technologist among others.

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Printing and Media Technology

The Technical university of Kenya is the only university training in the area of printing in this country, East and Central Africa and beyond. Over the years the then Kenya Polytechnic as a training institution trained respected technicians and technologists in this area. The Technical University of Kenya inherits this legacy and as is already evident, we are the first university to elevate the Printing discipline to degree level. The department provides training in printing science and technology on one hand and media on the other. It also offers courses in Packaging and modern technologies. The Department provides a comprehensive practical grounding in all aspects of prepress, press and post press processes and all printing procedures. The course also looks closely at digital media production and prepares students for the diverse and technically advanced print and publishing industry. Our graduates are able to use computer aided design, highly competent in the use of image-setters for colour separation, scanning techniques, use of process camera, printing from a single colour machine to a four colour machine and the various machines used in printing. There is a considerable enhancement of training that our graduates acquire which compels the Printing and Publishing industry employees consider them