GREY is a unit of WPP Group and a global advertising and marketing agency, with 432 offices in 96 countries. They provide advertising, direct marketing, public relations, public affairs, brand development, customer relationship management, sales promotion, and interactive marketing services, for such clients as Procter & Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, Nokia, BAT, Diageo, Volkswagen, Novartis, Wyeth, Canon, and 3M.

But they’re edgy, so when GREY’s Geneva office is refurbishing its website, they don’t do it the boring way, in the background, and then replace the old site with the new one when it’s ready. No way. Instead, they turn their homepage into an homage to one of those “under construction” pages we loved in the late 90′s.

No content, no info, just a link to their contact email. Some would call it useless and impractical, but we say old skool!

Dear GREY.ch webmaster, don’t get me wrong, it’s pretty and witty, but you really should have used an animated GIF, to make it even clearer. I found these for you in my old Zip disks, that I hope you will like. Let me know if you need some “email us” animated flying envelopes too, ok?