Table of Contents

01 // Behind the Brief
02 // Inside the Build
03 // Browseworthy
04 // Prompt & Play

01 // Behind the Brief

When I created the Wordly Hotels series, I was just starting to explore AI image generation beyond basic cartoon-style outputs. I didn’t know much yet, but I wanted to get better at prompting and find a system for creating consistent, visually compelling images.

I gave myself a short creative challenge: explore a new concept each day and use AI to build a small series around it. That’s when I came across an image of a hotel inside a piece of fruit.

I decided to put my own spin on the idea! Instead of using just any food, I focused on national dishes. Living in Europe, I’ve come to love how architecture feels like a country’s visual signature. Food does the same. Not everyone knows a Swiss Hüüsli, but they’ll recognize Swiss chocolate. So I combined the two, national food and architecture, to create AI-generated hotels tied to culture and place.

I started with a Toblerone hotel in the Swiss Alps, then followed it with a Swiss cheese hotel, where the windows sat inside the holes. For France, I made a macaron hotel (though my heart and stomach belongs to éclairs). I ended the series with a grape cluster hotel inspired by Napa Valley in the US, a personal nod to my mom and where I once lived. 💙

This was one of the first AI experiments that made me feel genuinely excited, like I had a reason to open the tools beyond just testing them. It started as play, but it taught me a lot about building consistent visuals, focusing on the details, and following an idea wherever it leads.

02 // Inside the Build

For this series, I used ChatGPT to help me develop the prompts, as well as the images. 💡 Tip for ChatGPT - I like to separate my process into two threads:

1. One thread for developing the concept and refining the prompts

2. Second thread dedicated solely to image generation.

This setup not only helps me stay organized, but it also comes in handy of the image results go off track and I need to reset without losing my original idea, and prompts.

Once I created the first two images the system had enough context, and I was able to move quickly from one country to the next. I wasn’t reinventing the wheel each time, just adjusting the dish, region, and cultural references while keeping the core structure intact. Of course there was the back and forth for smaller tweaks, but nothing major!

Are you ready to create a tasty hotel yourself? Scroll to Prompt & Play to get the prompt and start tweaking!

03 // Browseworthy

Tools to Check Out 🛠️

• ChatGPT: I used ChatGPT to refine my prompts, generate the images, troubleshoot when results went off track, and build out descriptive prompts that helped the tool to “see” what I wanted.

• Lexica: Search AI-generated images and see the exact prompts that made them. Great for reverse engineering results or experimenting with variations.

Dive Deeper with these Resources 📖

• OpenAI’s Guide to Prompt Engineering: While it's written for text generation, many of the same principles apply to visual prompts — clarity, specificity, and sequencing matter.

04 // Prompt & Play

Now it’s your turn to create your own version of the Wordly Hotel! Which one will you choose? Hotel Pastel de Nata for Portugal? Hotel Taco for Mexico? Or Hotel Baklava for Turkey? The ideas are endless… 🤪

Below is the prompt I used to structure my Swiss Schokolade Hotel. I’ve highlighted the parts in blue that you’ll need to swap out to make it your own. Or, if you’d rather not start from scratch, just drop the full prompt into ChatGPT (or another AI tool) and ask it to rework the structure based on your idea.

Wordly Hotel Prompt:

A surreal architectural hotel designed in the shape of a giant sliced Toblerone chocolate bar, nestled in the Swiss Alps. The building features ultra-realistic triangular peaks of glossy milk chocolate, each segment revealing rich honey-almond nougat textures inside. One side of the bar remains solid to showcase its iconic angular form, while the other is hollowed out to reveal elegant, multi-story balconies built within the chocolate ridges — each adorned with cozy wooden railings, alpine flowers, and warm ambient lighting.

The hotel is set against a breathtaking mountainous backdrop with snow-dusted peaks, lush green meadows, and winding hiking trails. Quaint chalet-style cabins, fir trees, and gentle alpine streams surround the structure, blending seamlessly with the landscape. The scene is bathed in soft golden hour light, casting warm reflections on the chocolate exterior and illuminating the crisp alpine air. Ultra-realistic rendering, cinematic composition. A golden metal nameplate at the base reads: “Schokolade Hotel”.

If you need more guidance and want me to create a tutorial, reach out to [email protected].

Before we part ways, I wanted to say that if you create something, please send it my way! I’d genuinely love to see what you come up with. ✌🏼 Happy prompting!

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