RIAI and Oide Graphics Exhibition 2026
For the seventh year running, the RIAI is collaborating with ‘Oide’, the second-level teacher support organisation, to support the Junior Cycle Graphics Exhibition 2026, promoting design amongst young Graphics Students. The learning outcomes of this second-level subject are closely aligned with Architecture.
Click on the image below to view the 2026 exhibition poster.
The exhibition titled "This Inspires Me" encourages Junior Cycle Graphics students to identify and explore a building, object, or space that they find inspiring. The Junior Cycle Graphics Exhibition is a fantastic initiative that showcases the excellent work of the next generation of Designers. The exhibition allows students to develop their creativity, spatial ability, and capacity to reason and communicate their ideas through engagement with abstract and applied geometric problem-solving activities.
Oide is the support service for teachers and school leaders, funded by the Department of Education.
What is Junior Cycle Graphics?
In Junior Cycle Graphics, students develop their creativity, spatial ability, and capacity to reason and communicate ideas through engagement with abstract and applied geometric problem-solving activities. Graphics encourages the development of the cognitive and practical dexterity skills associated with graphical communication.
In Junior Cycle Graphics students investigate and solve design challenges. They work with their peers to refine their ideas from an abstract concept to a final, detailed, drafted design. Abstraction, and spatial reasoning are fundamental to this process; graphics provides multiple and varied opportunities for students to develop these high level cognitive and creative skills in engaging contexts. Skills that encourage the student to solve problems through creation, innovation, communication, collaboration and exploration, all of which are developed in an active learning environment where students can advance their ideas from conception to realisation.
They will develop cognitive and practical skills such as graphical communication, spatial visualisation, creative problem-solving, design capabilities and modelling, both physically and through the use of computer-aided design.