Black and white photograph of Józef Sławiński (1905-1983) painting his mural titled Communication. This mural is done employing a technique called Sgraffito, which entails scratching through a coating to reveal a contrasting color underneath. The mural portrays the transfer of information from prehistory into the future, encompassing developments such as writing, the printing press, radio, television, computers, and satellites.

This mural was commissioned by Eugene Garfield (1925-2017), a prominent American information scientist and pioneer in the field of scientometrics. He was the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), a renowned academic publishing service that offered scientometric and bibliographic database services and specialized in citation index and analysis.