This is what i had to work on for Color and Design. We had to make either a topographic or geometric gradient work. I stuck with the topographic and ended up with this. I was told to fix it because (1) my cuts were not good and (2) the background was not a good selection. Even though my gradients were good, I ended up with a final result of this:

I really like this one becaus the grey scale background makes the colored pieces pop out and the last strip in teh background fades and turns into the border.