HCMA closing slide with office directory

Summary

The closing slide: a full-bleed burnt-orange field with a bold black two-line sign-off, the square logomark top-right, and a three-city office directory that doubles as a land acknowledgement.

Visual description

Edge-to-edge rust / burnt-orange background (a notable break from the cream interior pages). Top-left, a large black sans-serif headline set tight in two lowercase lines: "the end is just / the beginning". Top-right corner holds the solid black hcma square logomark. The lower-left quadrant carries a three-column directory in small black type for Vancouver, Victoria and Edmonton, each listing street address, phone and email, followed by an acknowledgement of the Indigenous territories each office sits on, with names given in their original languages (xwmeθkweyem (Musqueam), Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish), leNwenen (Songhees, Esquimalt), Nehiyawak (Cree) and others). The tagline "curiosity applied" and "hcma.ca" run vertically up the far bottom-right edge. No imagery or pattern, just type on the flat colour.

Key takeaway

Ending a long guideline on a single warm full-bleed colour and a confident lowercase line ("the end is just the beginning") that reframes the document as a starting point. Folding a genuine land acknowledgement into the contact directory makes a values statement structural rather than decorative.

Reuse notes

A reusable closing pattern for decks and guidelines: one saturated brand colour, one oversized sign-off line, the mark, and the practical contact block in one corner. The colour flip from the body pages gives the ending a clear punctuation. The land-acknowledgement directory is specific to a Canadian practice with Indigenous-territory context; adapt the sentiment honestly rather than copying the wording.