About

Jessie Rebecca Cook

Graphic Designer, b. 2005

Raised in the suburbs of Southern Ontario, born at Credit Valley Hospital at 4 a.m. on February 20, 2005, five days late and already behind schedule. Her early years were spent in Meadowvale before the family landed in Milton, just before her younger sister Jordin was born.

Scooby-Doo and Lego shaped her early brain. They still do. While other kids grew out of their toys, she leveled up to bigger builds, better sets, and a growing obsession with making things with her hands.

Her school years traced a line across Milton: Bruce Trail, E.W. Foster, W.I. Dick, then Milton District High School. Somewhere between late elementary and mid-middle school the bullying hit hard. It shaped her into the kind of person who notices the quiet kid on the edge of the crowd. Popularity was never the goal. Read more about the schools here.

Grade 9 rolled in with a global shutdown. Covid closed the schools and opened a door to something unexpected. Her dad gave her an idea: “Start a T-shirt business.” That little spark became Blondie’s Designs, a five-year custom apparel operation that

grew from funny shirts to full-blown uniforms, merch, and promo gear. By late 2025, she shut it down to focus on Storyteller Creative, the career path that fits. Read about my businesses here.

Most days of her life have been spent inside Minuteman Press Milton, the family print shop her parents bought in 2010. She started working there at 13 and never really stopped. Ink, Pantones, crop marks, rush jobs, client emails at 4 p.m. on a Friday. It is where design stopped being a dream and started becoming a skill.

For a moment, engineering tried to steal her. She packed her high school schedule with STEM classes and even did a co-op at Versatile Millwrights, creating a full engineering drawing for a high-pressure hose-reel cart that went to production with zero adjustments. The client eventually ordered ten more.

But when her guidance counsellor told her straight up that her physics grades weren’t getting her into engineering school, she finally looked toward the career she actually wanted. She took a gap year, explored business and marketing, and eventually

landed on Advertising. She applied everywhere. She chose OCAD University. She commutes daily from home because she is a homebody at heart. The city sparks her brain, but the trees in her backyard
settle it.

Outside school and work, she has been part of FirePower CrossFit since childhood. She grew from a figure skater and gymnast into a CrossFit kid with the medical record to prove it. Broken wrist. Split scalp. Rolled ankle from simply walking in the backyard. She survives, laughs, tapes it up, and keeps going.

Her story is also a dog story. Lacey. Felix. Jake. Dash. Paisley. The furry siblings, protectors, and heartbreaks. Jake the golden retriever was her shadow. Losing him in March 2025 still hits hard.

Now at 20, she is piecing it all together. The bullied kid. The clumsy. The print-shop apprentice. The almost-engineer. The ad student. The entrepreneur. The designer. She is building a life where strategy, storytelling, and bold design all collide.

Little Memories

I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, let alone my entire childhood. Most of it only comes back when I see a photo...quick flashes of growing up in Milton, school days, and the little moments that somehow stuck.