The Chronicle of Higher Education has created a must-see interactive infographic showing college graduation rates (1940-2009) from across the country. The information that’s displayed is a thing of beauty, but more important is the accessibility of the data as you drill down by county to filter for race, income, and population density.

What do you get when you combine the potential of HTML5 with Massimo Vignelli’s famous subway map? Thanks to Alexander Chen, you arrive with MTA.ME.

Conductor: www.mta.me from Alexander Chen.

Great design is alive and well in 2010 as Co.Design share 12 of the Year’s Best Ideas in Interface Design.

Cortex interactive ring helps organize social networks