The ABC’s Story Lab and Digital Story Innovations have triumphed at the Society for News Design Awards, the leading global awards recognising journalism that pushes the boundaries of design and technology.

The ABC haul of 13 awards included three Bronze medals, which are awarded to stories that are at the leading edge of craftsmanship or innovation, displaying an elevated level of execution, originality or degree of difficulty.

One of the Bronze awards went to Story Lab’s data visualisation of the upcoming stage 3 tax cuts, which the judges praised for its non-traditional approach and ability to provide context and scale, as well as its attention to detail and commitment to a single concept.

A Bronze was also awarded to Story Lab’s ‘See your identity pieced together from stolen data’, which revealed how much of our personal information can be found online.

The ABC received 10 Awards of Excellence in areas including politics, social issues, business, animation design and information graphics. Ben Spraggon, designer for ABC News’ Interactive Digital Storytelling team, received two awards for his individual portfolio.

“A big congratulations to everyone who worked on these projects, and in particular the designers credited on them — Ben Spraggon, Georgina Piper and Alex Palmer,” said ABC News Story Lab editor Matthew Liddy.

“Excellence in design doesn’t happen in isolation — the ABC News staff credited on these awards range across a suite of roles including reporter, developer, producer, data journalist, photographer and 3D animator. All of these roles are crucial to achieving great design results.”

The full list of winning ABC entries:

BRONZE MEDALS

Story Lab and Digital Story Innovations (DSI) combined portfolio

Social issues

These tax cuts are set to reshape Australia’s budget (Story Lab)

See your identity pieced together from stolen data (Story Lab)

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE  

These tax cuts are set to reshape Australia’s budget (Story Lab)

• • Award of Excellence: Design— Politics
  • Award of Excellence: Infographics— Politics

See your identity pieced together from stolen data (Story Lab)

• • Award of Excellence: Design— Social Issues
  • Award of Excellence: Infographics— Business

Beyond No, here’s what we know about the Voice results (Story Lab)

• • Award of Excellence: Infographics— Politics

The fraught journey to reach the Titanic (Story Lab)

• • Award of Excellence: Design— Breaking (unplanned)

Razed (DSI)

• • Award of Excellence: Elements— Animation design

Story Lab and Digital Story Innovations (DSI) combined portfolio

• • Award of Excellence: Portfolio— Information Graphics

Ben Spraggon portfolio (Story Lab)

• • Award of Excellence: Individual Portfolio— Combination
  • Award of Excellence: Individual Portfolio— Information Graphics